Archimedes Quotes

The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.

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• As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Men
  • Women
  • Relationships

• When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Together
  • Think
  • I Think

• It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Long
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Darkness
  • Lights
  • Curse

• What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Good
  • America
  • Moving

• Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Difference
  • Privacy
  • Secrecy

• Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Spiritual
  • Only
  • Zeal

• The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Like
  • Perspective

• The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Find

• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
  • Education
  • Me

• I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Wife

• Everybody needs somebody.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Relationship
  • Needs

• Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

  

  Earl King
  • People
  • Want
  • Blues

• If America wants to lead the world, it needs to make sure new ideas can get to market. More opportunity will birth more companies that create more jobs.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • World
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Actors
  • Part
  • Directors

• Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Religion
  • Morality
  • Koran

• So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Character

• Inspiration is pervasive but not a power.It's a peaceful thing.It is a consolation even to plants and animals.Do not think that it is unique.If it were unique no one would be able to respond to your work.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Power
  • Inspiration

• If someone offered me a free trip to the International Space Station, I would decline. I like Earth. I like the internet. I like Diet Coke. I have cats. I write about brave people - I'm not one of them.

  

  Andy Weir
  • People
  • Free
  • Earth

• Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Things
  • Happiness

• The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.

  

  Archimedes