David Griffiths Quotes

#1. When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Barbet Schroeder

#2. But devils are subservient to certain influences of the stars, because magicians observe the course of certain stars in order to evoke the devils.

Heinrich Kramer

#3. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.

Robert Burns

#4. There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

Jessica Valenti

#5. The fine structure constant is undoubtedly the most fundamental pure (dimensionless) number in all of physics. It relates the basic constants of electromagnetism (the charge of the electron), relativity (the speed of light), and quantum mechanics (Planck's constant).

David J. Griffiths

#6. Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.

Philip Treacy

#7. There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

Albert Camus

#8. They were two ships sailing in opposite diretions, having met for a short time in the middle of the voyage, and he could no sooner "keep her" than capture the wind.

Alexandra Bracken

#9. My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.

Michael Sheen

#10. You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn't do without me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#11. When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.

Richard Griffiths

#12. Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap.

Chang-rae Lee

#13. I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

J. Michael Straczynski

#14. Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.

David J. Griffiths

#15. The stupid girl thinks Muslim is a language.

Jill Ciment

#16. I've loved being in legislative office on a state level, and I think on a federal level there are so many more opportunities. I'm so excited to accomplish more.

Grace Meng

#17. What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.

Heinz Von Foerster