George Stokes Quotes

#1. I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

George Stokes

#2. The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

Damon Runyon

#3. My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.

Tom Hanks

#4. A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

Jean De La Bruyere

#5. King was a transformed person. Evil was no longer a theory.

Troy Jackson

#6. Because your little inspirational speech was about as uplifting as a kitten funeral.

Sarah Dalton

#7. I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Kirby Larson

#8. Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

Nicole Krauss

#9. Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#10. Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

Shailer Mathews

#11. We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

Barnett Newman

#12. But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

George Gabriel Stokes

#13. Remember: the Word is God and God is the Word. You are what your words are.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi