Kirchhoff Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#3. I find it hard to do small roles sometimes.

Robert Taylor

#4. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.

Francis Bacon

#5. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

Daniel Wallace

#6. I know what it's like to lose kits, Oakheart, I wouldn't wish that kind of grief on any cat.

Erin Hunter

#7. Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

Paul Ormerod

#8. I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

Marvin Bell

#9. Innovation, having fun and giving back, should be the core values for everyone

Hillary Clinton

#10. There was so much to say, and I had so much to ask, but all I could do was whisper, "Kai, please come with me." just as the bathroom door clicked shut. *

Megan Erickson

#11. Let me just say that it is super wierd throwing your own bash at a conference instead of just leaching off everyone else's, but hey, free beer, right?

Rob Malda

#12. I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'

Chase Utley

#13. Clearly, it wasn't enough for managers to have good ideas - they had to be able to engender support for those ideas among the people who'd be charged with employing them.

Ed Catmull

#14. So he set into motion a revolution in education: creative students would be singled out and allowed to pursue their dreams at their own pace.

Anonymous

#15. The seed of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

Joseph Henry