Quotes About Musschenbroek

#1. I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain nothing.
[Describing his experiments with the Leyden jar.]

Pieter Van Musschenbroek

#2. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries - stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region.

Herman Melville

#3. We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#4. That guy is trying to be a gentleman, because as much as he wanted you to come back to his place and as much as he wants to kiss you-you're hurt, I'm afraid you don't actually want me here

Cora Carmack

#5. We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

Marc Almond

#6. Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

Nigel Farage

#7. I'd rather fake my own fog, than fake a steamy love scene. Can I interest you in some mist? It's homemade.

Jarod Kintz

#8. The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Philip Emeagwali

#9. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.

Preeti Shenoy

#10. I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.

Andrew Wyatt

#11. His climax began gathering again, rising toward a point of no return. He didn't know if he could restrain himself this time: He was too close, too near to being overwhelmed.
She cried out, trembling exclamations.
He lost all control, his release hot, violent, and endless.

Sherry Thomas

#12. It's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of day, it's more like a two-and-two-make ... fish

Dave McKean

#13. Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

Piper Payne

#14. Isobel's head popped up. "What does 'sagacious' mean?"
"Sagacious," he said, writing, "adjective describing someone in possession of acute mental faculties. Also describing one who might, in a bookstore, think to get up and locate an actual dictionary instead of asking a billion questions.

Kelly Creagh

#15. Universal emptiness is mere concept.
The fact is, there was never emptiness.

Toba Beta

#16. Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

Swami Vivekananda