Quotes About Solids

#1. For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.

Alexander Monro

#2. The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#3. Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#4. Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#5. Whenever you brown butter, some of it is lost - water evaporates, milk solids fall to the bottom of the pan, that kind of thing. It's possible that in browning the butter you ended up making the dough with too little butter.

Dorie Greenspan

#6. There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.

Rose George

#7. Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.

Mary Roach

#8. There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#9. Fire, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore solids, and solids are contained in planes, and plane rectilinear figures are made up of triangles.

Plato

#10. Rocks are the key to Earth history, because solids remember but liquids and gases forget.

Walter Alvarez

#11. God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#12. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids." Without that dance, there could be no life.

Gerald H. Pollack

#13. On that night the sky laid bare its internal construction in many sections which, like quasi-anatomical exhibits, showed the spirals and whorls of light, the pale-green solids of darkness, the plasma of space, the tissue of dreams.

Bruno Schulz

#14. Experimental evidence has now verified that nuclear reactions can be caused to occur in heavily loaded solids. It is premature to predict where this is headed from an applications point of view, but the basic science is clearly revolutionary.

George H. Miley

#15. God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil.

Wolfgang Paul

#16. A plasma is the "fourth state of matter." Solids, liquids, and gases make up the three familiar states of matter, but the most common form of matter in the universe is plasma, a gas of ionized atoms.

Michio Kaku

#17. After all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

Lawrence Durrell

#18. Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

David Foster Wallace

#19. Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

Noel Coward

#20. The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

Tacitus

#21. From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

Mark Strand

#22. He loved adventure but then he got hired by accenture!

Himmilicious

#23. Success comes through small daily wins.

Todd Stocker

#24. I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

Keith Miller

#25. I'd spare your tears for the rest of your life if I could.

Kiera Cass

#26. -It's hard to explain, Adders. But I just...I don't feel that way about him. I've tried really hard...believe me I have.
-That's the thing though, if you have to try really hard then it's not meant to be. You shouldn't have to try to love someone. You either do or you don't.

Lisa J. Hobman

#27. The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.

J.P. Bloch

#28. Ours is a God who waits. Who are we not to? It takes what it takes for the great turnaround. Wait for it.

Gregory Boyle

#29. So, Azalee - " When he turned to her, she stared daggers back - almost as though she had read his mind. Can Chertzes do that? he wondered in a wild moment of panic.

"What?" bit Azalee when he didn't continue.

Mighty Zeus, could he go five minutes without offending a woman?

Deidre Huesmann

#30. I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.

Thomas Menino

#31. I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

Wendy Davis