Fraunhofer Quotes

#1. Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun.

{After his banker questioned the value of investigating gold in the Fraunhofer lines of the sun and Kirchhoff handing him over a medal he was awarded for his investigations.}

Gustav Kirchhoff

#2. It will reward enough for me if, by the publication of the present experiment, I have directed the attention of investigators to this subject, which still promises much for physical optics and appears to open a new field.

Joseph Von Fraunhofer

#3. One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

Ellen McLaughlin

#4. So ... do you?" He persisted.
"Yes," she said finally with a mystified laugh. "I wrap my head in a towel."
He nodded, satisfied. "I thought so."
"Did you ever think about cutting back on the caffeine?"
Miles shook his head. "Never.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

Rodman Philbrick

#6. Faith, Harry. God has a way of seeing to it that things fall into place.

Jim Butcher

#7. Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

Jane Urquhart

#8. In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

George Washington

#9. To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Oscar Wilde