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 cant back up and start over. But I dont see the point in slobberin over it. And I cant see where it would make me feel better to be able to point a finger at somebody else.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Up

• Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

  

  David Hockney

• Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

  

  Bill Walton
  • Question
  • Player

• Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Done
  • Years

• The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Whispers
  • Screams

• 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