Pierre Et Gilles Quotes

#1. Clothing is dishonesty in its purest form.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read.

Michael A. Stackpole

#3. Usually a fiber, after being dipped in a liquid, shows a string of droplets, and thus, for some time, people thought that most common fibers were non-wettable.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#4. Of course I was drawn to the sun bears, they're fascinating. But so are tigers and lots of other animals at the zoo. Probably a big part of the reason I felt so connected to them was because of their name: SUN BEAR.

Matthew Zapruder

#5. We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.

David Karp

#6. Code, without tests, is not clean. No matter how elegant it is, no matter how readable and accessible, if it hath not tests, it be unclean. Dave

Robert C. Martin

#7. Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.

Bryant McGill

#8. What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#9. I believe you have to live the songs.

Tammy Wynette

#10. Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#11. Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.

Patricia Hamill

#12. Surfactants allow us to protect a water surface and to generate these beautiful soap bubbles, which are the delight of our children.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#13. The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#14. She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Alice Hoffman

#15. The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.

James Dobson

#16. I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes