Arthur Eddington Quotes

There once was a brainy baboon,Who always breathed down a bassoon,For he said, 'It appearsThat in billions of yearsI shall certainly hit on a tune'.

Arthur Eddington

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• From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Purpose
  • Perspective

• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • World
  • America
  • Democracy

• A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Change
  • Some
  • Conservation

• In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Football
  • Opportunities

• No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fun
  • Fashion
  • Sun

• 'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • May
  • Guy

• I'm really into fashion, but I don't really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find everything I want at a good price.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Clothes

• For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Grandmother
  • Loving

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Think
  • Week

• I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Film
  • Movies
  • Old

• Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Success
  • Road
  • Nobody

• My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Up
  • Character
  • Challenge

• The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Important
  • Moment
  • Sacrifice

• There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Ignorance

• … let's all remember that we have a government 'of the people, for the people, and by the people', and there are very few people in our government that you can't buy.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Remember

• I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone’s reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn’t mean you should be permanently disqualified.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

• Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Opportunity
  • Pain
  • Spiritual

• I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • House
  • Atheist

• It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • People
  • Music
  • Appreciate

• I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Jesus
  • Off
  • Statue

• I absolutely loved it, and I loved the way the character of D'Artagnan had been portrayed. I was just well up for it. So, I went in and met (director) Toby [Haynes], and as soon as I got into that room, to see how excited everybody was to get this underway and onto the set, it just drew me to it, even more. It was an instant attraction, so I was delighted when I got the offer.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Up
  • Character
  • Excited

• There once was a brainy baboon,Who always breathed down a bassoon,For he said, 'It appearsThat in billions of yearsI shall certainly hit on a tune'.

  

  Arthur Eddington