Polonium Quotes

#1. We believe the substance we have extracted from pitchblende contains a metal not yet observed, related to bismuth by its analytical properties. If the existence of this new metal is confirmed we propose to call it polonium, from the name of the original country of one of us.

Marie Curie

#2. Scarily, cadmium is not even the worst poison among the elements. It sits above mercury, a neurotoxin. And to the right of mercury sit the most horrific mug shots on the periodic table - thallium, lead, and polonium - the nucleus of poisoner's corridor.

Sam Kean

#3. I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

Thomas A. Edison

#4. Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.

Eve Curie

#5. Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

Sam Kean

#6. Beauty lies mainly, above all, in personality, not in the skin.

Eva Longoria

#7. Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.

Sivananda

#8. You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

Steven Pressfield

#9. Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.

Paul Weller

#10. What is he doing to me?

Penelope Douglas

#11. Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.

Blaise Pascal

#12. The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging.

Jan Egeland

#13. ...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#14. I like to give stuff away for free and play shows for cheap and not rely on music as a job.

Girl Talk

#15. But don't you understand?' she said urgently. 'The demon was hiding all the way down in sublevel three.

Edward Cox

#16. In solitude we don't reject the world but have the space to think our thoughts.

Sherry Turkle