Henry Armstrong Quotes

#1. My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.

Langston Hughes

#2. Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

Henry Edward Armstrong

#3. The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father.

Mother Angelica

#4. Kissing onscreen is the worst thing in the world. I'm OK with lovemaking scenes, but I hate kissing.

Bipasha Basu

#5. Furbling v. Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you're the only person in line.

Steven Pinker

#6. Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

Jared Diamond

#7. Don't go to the circus.

Angie Sage

#8. I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.

Christian Louboutin

#9. I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

Vikram Seth

#10. Dear little Bog-Face,
Why are you so cold?
And why do you lie with your eyes shut?
You are not very old.
I am a Child of this World
And a Child of Grace,
And Mother, I shall be glad when it is over,
I am Bog-Face.

Stevie Smith

#11. The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Mao Zedong

#12. Intellectuals cannot find the bottom (base) of the faith. It is not possible to do both together, to remain afloat and (also) measure the ocean depth at the same time.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from our midst, root and branch, this physical element and return to our laboratories.

Henry Edward Armstrong

#14. When the chemist makes gloves, he usually cannot help making them in pairs for both hands.

Henry Edward Armstrong

#15. Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Mark Twain

#16. [Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine atoms is arrived at by a chess-board pattern of these atoms; it is a result of geometry and not of a pairing-off of the atoms.

Henry Edward Armstrong

#17. Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men

Elisabeth Elliot

#18. Maybe I'm weak for music men. Maybe I'm weak, period. But I couldn't deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.

Tiffanie DeBartolo