Elisha Gray Quotes
When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.Elisha Gray
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
Hal Borland -
When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
Nadia Comaneci -
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
Ilka Chase
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith -
But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
Ted Shackelford -
I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
Ted Yoho -
I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
Lance Armstrong -
I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
Famke Janssen
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Walter Bagehot -
Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
Sam Smith -
I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
Kaley Cuoco -
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Lady Bird Johnson -
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
Ian Anderson -
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
Ted Rall
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I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.
Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes -
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
Denis Waitley -
Etna
Max Ernst -
If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.
Cory Booker -
When I thought I was dying in rehab in 1994, 'I Won't back Down' was my mantra. It lifted my up out of the pain and made me fight through it. 'The Waiting'... summed up my life. We can't stand waiting, we rock 'n' roll men and women. Tom Petty's songs are like a great book that you revisit when you need help. His songs make me better.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.
Elisha Gray