Barry Barish Quotes

The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

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• If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Government

• This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Reality
  • Immigration
  • Trail

• Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Long
  • Political
  • Change

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Style
  • Season

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• If you love our country you are national, and if you love our people you are a socialist.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • People
  • Country

• Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Goddess

• The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake. But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that’s not very cool. It’s not just selfish, it’s kinda sick and unhealthy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Friend
  • Cool
  • Sick

• A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Friend

• I do not ask my cross to understandMy way to see:Better in darkness just to feel Thy handAnd follow Thee.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter

• You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the roadThe roots are deep inside usIt's the rhythm in our soul.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Soul
  • Deep

• I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Up
  • American

• I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Night
  • Interesting

• One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

  

  Neville Marriner
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.

  

  Neymar
  • Forever

• Healing is a moral thing to do.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • Moral
  • Healing

• By taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Alone

• Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.

  

  Marsha Blackburn

• Now that I'm afraid was institutionalized, and the great thing about the Canadian content regulations is that it broke that open. I mean it broke it open because people were faced with no choice, but to really start listening to these records and find the ones that they could play. It didn't take long for Canadian radio to go "Wow! We're not going broke doing this, it's not killing us, the audience isn't complaining."

  

  Bernie Finkelstein
  • Play
  • Radio
  • Broke

• Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. ...that is a feature of the musical brain.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Brain

• I believe in individuality, but individuals are, to the mass, like waves to the ocean. The highest order of genius is as dependent as is the lowest.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Believe
  • Ocean
  • Waves

• The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Waves