Joseph Von Fraunhofer Quotes

#1. It will reward enough for me if, by the publication of the present experiment, I have directed the attention of investigators to this subject, which still promises much for physical optics and appears to open a new field.

Joseph Von Fraunhofer

#2. Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.

Utah Phillips

#3. Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#4. The sun climbs the horizon. I throw back the covers, take another breath, and begin. I get to. I get to live.

Ann Voskamp

#5. Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl's gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord's last pratfall, and after all that time we still don't know where passion goes when it goes.

Tom Robbins

#6. Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun.

{After his banker questioned the value of investigating gold in the Fraunhofer lines of the sun and Kirchhoff handing him over a medal he was awarded for his investigations.}

Gustav Kirchhoff

#7. The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.

Mary Doria Russell

#8. Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?

Ryan Lilly

#9. Because with joy, we overcome the terror. With love, strength, and hope, we prevail.

Sarah Darer Littman

#10. In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

Jackie Speier

#11. Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.

Mary Quant

#12. If we think we can somehow do something that God didn't expect or surprise him in some way, then we seriously underestimate the scope of God's knowledge.

Will Davis Jr.

#13. This is the end of an epic tale, the story of my coming of age, which, like in the novels of the same description, went from wonder to ambition, from ambition to disillusion, and from disillusion to cynicism.

Muriel Barbery

#14. Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

Julie Mehretu

#15. Governance is key to a robust Health IT system.

Dick Taylor