Quotes About Angstrom

#1. I have come to realize, after over thirty years of studying human creativity, that the great divide is not between those who are artists and those who are not, but between those who understand that they are creative and those who have become convinced that they are not.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#2. When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Bill Bryson

#3. The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

Mark Lawrence

#4. In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.

John Updike

#5. The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

John Updike

#6. The job of art is to turn time into things.

Robert Genn

#7. I don't think about politics," Rabbit says. "That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.

John Updike

#8. I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.

Ted Danson

#9. Huh. Leo scowled at his monitor. In his tattered work shirt and grease-splattered jeans, he looked like he'd just lost a wrestling match with a locomotive.

Rick Riordan

#10. The most important thing is not victory, the most important thing is don't get defeated.

Rickson Gracie

#11. He settles back with a small handful of cashews; dry-roasted, they have a little acid sting to them, the tang of poison that he likes.

John Updike

#12. He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

John Updike

#13. Tall as he is, there is no carrying the slope under his shirt as anything other than a loose gut, a paunch that in itself must weigh as much as a starving Ethiopian child.

John Updike

#14. The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide.

Eric Metaxas

#15. We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

John Updike

#16. His gray suit makes him seem extra vulnerable, in the way of children placed in unaccustomed clothes for ceremonies they don't understand.

John Updike

#17. I've even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!

Heidi Montag

#18. All you need remember is one simple rule. Never mix business...with pleasure.

Andrew Helfer

#19. The fucking world is running out of gas.

John Updike

#20. Great ideas often have no reference points.
We have nothing to compare them to. They are original, and awkward. And so they are the most vulnerable to people trying to kill them. They do not conform to what exists, so they challenge us.

David Hieatt

#21. He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting.

John Updike

#22. Dive on them and squash them if you must.

Jeremy Taylor

#23. I definitely have my days where I look like I got dressed in the dark.

Mariska Hargitay

#24. There is nothing more important in life than love.

Barbra Streisand