Jean Baptiste Biot Quotes

#1. A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

Henry Fielding

#2. You had to hand it to her: she was as cool as dammit.

Donna Tartt

#3. The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E.B. White

#4. Everything's simpler without constraints.

Erin Bowman

#5. You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles ... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

Gary Coleman

#6. I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

Kent McCord

#7. The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself.

Jean-Baptiste Biot

#8. Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database ... the problem today is no longer how to create the right image, but how to find an already existing one.

Lev Manovich

#9. I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

Pattiann Rogers

#10. My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.

{Commenting about Louis Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.}

Jean-Baptiste Biot

#11. Selection criterion: does it spark joy?

Marie Kondo

#12. I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

Steve McQueen

#13. The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

George Sand

#14. My legs are long but my body is too short.

Sophie Monk

#15. We are perpetually labouring to destroy our delights, our composure, our devotion to superior power. Of all the animals on earth we least know what is good for us. My opinion is, that what is best for us is our admiration of good.

Homer

#16. When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

Julian Fellowes