Irregularities Quotes

#1. As CEO, I accept responsibility for the irregularities that have been found in diesel engines and have therefore requested the Supervisory Board to agree on terminating my function as CEO of the Volkswagen Group.

Martin Winterkorn

#2. The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory ... and is challenged by such irregularities.

Frank X. Barron

#3. These irregularities of judgment, I imagine, are found even in riper minds than Mary Garth's: our

George Eliot

#4. It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.

Baron Hill

#5. In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

John Ruskin

#6. Fifth is Q, the amplitude of the irregularities in the cosmic microwave background, which equals 10

Michio Kaku

#7. What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others blithely marched ahead.

Catherine Gildiner

#8. Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Vincent Van Gogh

#9. I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#10. We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.

Max Black

#11. We use the metaphor of waves that rise and fall in societies, perhaps forgetting that the actual waves of the ocean are purely opportunistic, small irregularities in water that, snagging a fortunate gust, rise and break like monsters, for no greater cause than their own accidental invention.

Adam Gopnik

#12. Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

Joshua Foer

#13. Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. The irregularities of the motion of Uranus ... in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it.
[John Couch Adams on how he began to discover Neptune.]

John Couch Adams

#15. There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.

Jeffrey Skilling

#17. A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#18. I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.

Harvey Weinstein

#19. Life is a time when you get pleasure until somebody get your ass. and one of the ways to prolong pleasure is to not chop up time with syllables.

Padgett Powell

#20. He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#21. When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

John Gallagher Jr.

#22. We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

Nate Silver

#23. I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

Will Rogers

#24. Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

Leigh Steinberg

#25. Some stuff can't be explained... I want to say "To Draw "How I paint" in "How I paint" in "How I paint" in "How I paint" in "How I paint"... (Which will mean a Paint in the Paint)
A seaside...

Deyth Banger

#26. Some of the Reboots were gazing at her with such awe and excitement that I wanted to slap them and tell them to stop being weird.

Amy Tintera

#27. Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.

Shane Claiborne

#28. Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.

Sara Gruen