Archimedes Quotes

The centre of gravity of any hemisphere is on the straight line which is its axis, and divides the said straight line in such a way that the portion of it adjacent to the surface of the hemisphere has to the remaining portion the ratio which 5 has to 3.

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• I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Time
  • Shy

• Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Win

• I like walking in Golden Gate Park.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Walking
  • Golden
  • Gate

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Political
  • Growth
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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understand
  • Word
  • Clever

• I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!

  

  Gary Lineker
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• I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Easily
  • Embarrass

• My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Parents

• I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Myself
  • Listening

• Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Acting

• I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • New
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• They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Why
  • Never
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• I've actually never played a time traveler, for all the time travelling movies I've done.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
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• I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
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• Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
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• Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Up
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• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,No man hath walked along our roads with stepSo active, so inquiring eye, or tongueSo varied in discourse.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • World

• The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon,And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,He fired two bullets, but they didn't hit,And Custard gobbled him, every bit.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Pirate

• I am grateful to the activists and women who created the Black Lives Matter movement because I feel like they let me know I wasn't crazy.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
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• During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.

  

  James Madison
  • Pride
  • Ignorance

• I just like to have cereal in the morning, but it'll be those cluster things - it's a bit random - and through the day, I like just pasta, plain pasta with a bit of sauce on it, never too much in case I get a bad belly... and jelly just before I go on for a bit of energy!

  

  Jade Jones
  • Bad
  • Energy
  • Morning

• The centre of gravity of any hemisphere is on the straight line which is its axis, and divides the said straight line in such a way that the portion of it adjacent to the surface of the hemisphere has to the remaining portion the ratio which 5 has to 3.

  

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