Quotes About Foils

#1. You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers.

Claude Nicollier

#2. My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.

Rick Perlstein

#3. Stay with & live your dreams, for these trail blazers did and history is telling their stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils

Ikechukwu Joseph

#4. Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

Kim Hyesoon

#5. For me too, the periodic table was a passion ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful it was that each of those metal foils and jars of gas had its own distinct personality.

Freeman Dyson

#6. But when a god strikes harm, a worse man often foils his better.

Sophocles

#7. If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.

Jim Lee

#8. There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while we live in this world. Sin will not spare for one day. There is no safety but in a constant warfare for those who desire deliverance from sin's perplexing rebellion.

John Owen

#9. In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

Forrest Bird

#10. Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

John Ruskin

#11. The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools

Georg Brandes

#12. How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

James Rothman

#14. The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of 'Homeland'. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: "What did you think?"

Gabriel Mann

#15. If people are engaged, eventually the political system responds, despite the money, despite the lobbyists, it still responds.
~ President Obama

Chris Smith

#16. I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.

Ray Toro

#17. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Thomas Carlyle

#18. My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

Andrew Wyeth

#19. When I studied at Juilliard, I did a lot of pushups and became this diesel machine. I was really big and was like, 'This is not a good look for an ingenue.'

Rutina Wesley

#20. Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

William Odom

#21. It's only natural for the girl you're crushing on to be in love with someone else. Since you're in love with her, she sparkles in your eyes. That's why people fall so irrationally in love.

Myself

#22. In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeks - saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!

Patricia Heaton

#24. That much sexual tension makes me want to hump a phone pole, and that's just not attractive in a pregnant woman.

Amy Lane

#25. Alexander was silent. "Now you're really tiny," he said at last. "I'm not tiny," she returned. "You're just outsized." Blushing, she lowered her gaze.

Paullina Simons

#26. Dear teachers, please make reading and writing fun. Reading and writing shouldn't be a punishment while in school. I ask you to create and teach two electives: "Reading for Pleasure" and "Writing for Pleasure".

Gloria D. Gonsalves