238 Quotes

#1. Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#2. The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

David Bowie

#3. Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of a centrifuge to separate U-235 from U-238 was proportional to its length and to the fourth power of the peripheral speed of its rotor. Karl

Gregory Benford

#4. Next to God, thy parents.

William Penn

#5. The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238

Leslie Bratspis

#6. I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

Ellsworth Kelly

#7. [When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

Margaret Thatcher

#8. Change is inevitable; our response to it defines who we are.

James W. Mercer

#9. At a time when we can split the atom, land on the moon, and decode the human genome, why do 2 billion people live on less than $2 a day?

Charles Wheelan

#10. You have the chance to create; all the choices are yours to make if you decide to do so.

Steven Redhead

#11. There are many games I love to play. Which one I put on the table depends on the mood and the level of experience of my opponents; I don't have a clear favorite.

Klaus Teuber

#12. Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

John C. Maxwell

#13. I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.

Matthew Specktor

#14. And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238

Alice Walker

#15. They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.

Nicola Yoon

#16. For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.

Douglas Brinkley

#17. By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

Jane Jacobs

#18. Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

Jane Jacobs

#19. I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the piano and I just started learning the guitar.

Ryan Newman

#20. Defeat is not an option. Period. The End.

Charlie Sheen

#21. Why such haste? For a foolish hope? Why did his heart always insist on believing that there was a light in all the darkness?

Cornelia Funke