Top 30 Quotes About Graphite: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Graphite

#1. It is always better to write your feeling in GRAPHITE than in INK,
As it's much easier to erase them and start fresh as life does not give the freedom to do so ... .
In INK it takes time to fade away as life does ... .

Sarvesh Murthi .D.D

#2. Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.

Argus Hamilton

#3. Soldiers handling reactor graphite by hand shows how uninformed people were in the early days of the clean-up operation.

Andrew Leatherbarrow

#4. Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.

Bill Vaughan

#5. Graphene is a single plane of graphite that has to be pulled out of bulk graphite to show its amazing properties.

Andre Geim

#6. Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.

Richard Smalley

#7. I hardly ever use pencils. I'm left-handed and it's really messy if you're left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I used to because there's, like, 15,000 pencils all over my house.

David Rees

#8. I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios.

Peter Falk

#9. Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.

Roger Bannister

#10. Across the street an addict was mumbling, his words, like Dan Smooth's, reminiscent of the structure of graphite, which is to say comprised of slender hexagonal plates of atoms which slough off at a touch like the multitudinous crusts of a Turkish pastry.

William T. Vollmann

#11. The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.

Ahmed Toufiq

#12. What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Paulo Coelho

#13. ... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.

Ellie Lieberman

#14. Her graphite pencil scratches the thick paper and it is the soundtrack to my bliss. That, and her sound - dissonant, aching. Her breath and heartbeat and pulse are my new favorite symphony; I'm beginning to learn which notes will play when, and to interpret them.

Michelle Hodkin

#15. Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.

Henry Petroski

#16. God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.

Arthur Guiterman

#17. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches - that's what will be left at the end of it all.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

Charles L. Allen

#19. Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

Michael Ian Black

#20. Poets shouldn't vote.

Cormac McCarthy

#21. Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ.

Tina Brown

#22. Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

Heraclitus

#23. We ask Him to save us from our tendency to condemn. We ask Him to reveal to us the innocence within others, that we might see it within ourselves.

Marianne Williamson