Archimedes Quotes

The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.

Archimedes

• Earth
• Perimeter
• Stadia

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Drums
  • Bass

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Unity
  • Limit
  • Nationalism

• In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Faith
  • Understand
  • Changed

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Proud
  • Changed
  • Lifestyle

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Me
  • Rock

• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  

  Barbara Block
  • People
  • Want
  • Sharks

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Invest
  • Shoe
  • Trendy

• I've always been a bit of a documentarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Always
  • Been
  • Bit

• I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

  

  John Cale
  • Time

• Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Empty

• When I say that I'm not dancing, people get it confused, like I'm not going to do anything outside of rap. It's not that. When I leave this earth, I want to be remembered as an M.C. But I'm definitely going to touch a lot of other genres, not just rapping.

  

  Astro
  • People
  • Earth
  • Rap

• It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Earth
  • Warm
  • Sink

• Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.

  

  George Packer
  • World
  • Mind
  • Logic

• The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.

  

  Archimedes
  • Earth
  • Perimeter
  • Stadia