Adam Riess Quotes
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.
Quotes to Explore
-
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
-
I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
-
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
-
If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
-
I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
-
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
-
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
-
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
-
The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.
-
I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
-
Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
-
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
-
I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
-
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
-
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
-
When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
-
Lose your inhibitions about drawing and just do it.
-
I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
-
Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.
-
O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
-
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.
-
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.
