John Napier Quotes

#1. ...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer.

{On the benefit of John Napier's logarithms.}

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#2. Do you know it was a year a ago today?

Jay London

#3. Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

Charles Spurgeon

#4. Religion is a wizard, a sibyl ... She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.

Felix Adler

#5. That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.

Van Jones

#6. Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Karin Slaughter

#7. If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

John Napier

#8. Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with the Lord.

John Napier

#9. You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.

Gordon Brown

#10. If Orwell had a chance to write 1984 from the vantage point of 1984 instead of 1948, perhaps he would have seen the class of hackers instead of the proles as a threat to Big Brother's rule.

Ishmael Reed

#11. I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.

Melissa McCarthy

#12. It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

Timothy Spall

#13. We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

John Napier

#14. I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.

Brandon Flowers

#15. If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

Bear Bryant

#16. I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.

Sune Rose Wagner

#17. People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

Edward Hall

#18. I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

Kojo Annan

#19. Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

Cameron Crowe

#20. Visitors at the zoo indulge in transports of delight at the way an elephant reaches for an apple with it's trunk....but give not a moments thought to the ineffable capabilities of their own hands.

John Russell Napier