Fresnel's Quotes

#1. It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.

Albert A. Michelson

#2. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects us fools who love to act.

J.K. Rowling

#3. The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Eric Hoffer

#4. I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally.

Allen Stanford

#5. Barbara rearranged herself on the blanket, and the crowd howled a mass downward arpeggio when Enfield took the ball back. It's all right, it's okay, you're gonna work for us someday, rose the cheer from the Sheffield side.

Stephanie Clifford

#6. When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'

Greg Rucka

#7. See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Michelle Obama

#8. I have passed, I hope, many tests over the course of the last 20-odd years in relation to the peace process and intend to continue to work forward in a very sensible and reasoned way with political colleagues in the Executive.

Martin McGuinness

#9. If you cannot saw with a file or file with a saw, then you will be no good as an experimentalist.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

#10. Every troublemaker's excuse! Put it up your bum with the rest of the dirt!

Stephen King

#11. Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

#12. I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable or corrupt or controlling that I could actually belong there. You would think that I would have learned by now - such a place does not exist.

Veronica Roth

#13. Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little: it is a principle that the development of physics constantly supports by new evidence.

Jean Fresnel

#14. Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

Autumn Karr