Gabriel Lippmann Quotes

#1. Over the last ten years, breaking into comics has changed so much. There used to be specific ways about how to do it ... and now, just like there are so many different ways people are getting exposed to comics, there's no single way that people are breaking in anymore.

C.B. Cebulski

#2. My words always get me into troubles. And if not my words, it is my facial expressions.

Manasa Rao

#3. The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

Gabriel Lippmann

#4. This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.

Gabriel Lippmann

#5. The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

Gabriel Lippmann

#6. Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

Gabriel Lippmann

#7. The important thing in running away is not how fast you run but simply that you run faster than the next man.

Mark Lawrence

#8. He wasn't supposed to die,' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.
Neither are you.
Neither am I.

Patti Smith

#9. I got quite good results from protein plates.

Gabriel Lippmann

#10. During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.

Gabriel Lippmann

#11. The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

Gabriel Lippmann

#12. And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within him, till it seemed no feeling was left to him except a kind of weariness.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

Clare Balding

#14. Life is short and progress is slow.

Gabriel Lippmann

#15. In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

Gabriel Lippmann

#16. The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

Gabriel Lippmann

#17. When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

Gabriel Lippmann

#18. A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country,
but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.

Daniel S. Green

#19. The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.

Michelle Alexander

#20. When it is easier to do wrong, it is harder to do right, but best to not do nothing at all.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore