Top 100 Sol's Quotes
#1. Of course, Sol is a big ball of hot gas, but one that - thanks to its endlessly boiling innards - shakes and vibrates. By studying patterns on the Sun's surface, astronomers can learn much about Sol's internal construction.
Seth Shostak
#2. Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research area that uses sound as a probe of our home star.
Seth Shostak
#3. I remember we all cried like the Missouri
when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because
somebody pressed a button
(and down went
my uncle
Sol
and started a worm farm)
E. E. Cummings
#4. Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.
Sol Stein
#5. It's a bad place, brother. All ruins and bare rock. Only ever seen it from a distance and it gave me the frights. Something in the air (...) Just feels bad. The Lonak call it Maars Nir-Uhlin Sol, the Place of the Stolen Souls.
Anthony Ryan
#6. The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.
Sol Luckman
#7. More rationale decreases subjectivity.
Sol Sender
#8. British appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews [in the Holocaust] who might otherwise have found refuge in Palestine.
Sol Stern
#9. A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.
Sol LeWitt
#10. No, I don't work here, I'm taking pictures of messy bathrooms for a photo essay on the American West. But I'm always up for clean, so if you want to pitch in, I've got Pine Sol and a sponge in my car ... It's that VW microbus parked next to the dumpster, and you don't need a key, just pull hard.
Pansy Schneider-Horst
#11. Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.
Sol LeWitt
#12. I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.
Arsene Wenger
#13. Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.
Ann Rule
#14. Get pleasure out of life ... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok
#15. You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you - draw and paint your fear and anxiety.
Sol LeWitt
#16. An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.
Sol LeWitt
#17. Arousal is nature's stimulus for the propagation of the human race. The unaroused male of the species is as useless for that purpose as a worm. Arousal can happen sooner or later, but it must happen.
Sol Stein
#18. But, Dad ... " She hesitated. "It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that."
Sol managed a smile. "No parent would refuse that, Rachel.
Dan Simmons
#19. In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was the
Omega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the end - and that the end was just another beginning.
Sol Luckman
#20. Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
Sol LeWitt
#21. The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly referred to as reality.
Sol Luckman
#22. Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.
Sol Stein
#23. Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
Sol LeWitt
#24. I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
Sol LeWitt
#25. Nothing bonds two solitary individuals like a good shared drunk. This is a scientific fact. It's important, even necessary for the long-term welfare of the planet to get good and shit-faced with your neighbor every now and then.
Sol Luckman
#26. If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business.
Sol Hurok
#27. Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.
Coreen T. Sol
#28. If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
Sol Hurok
#29. LOG ENTRY: SOL 449 Today's the big day. I'm leaving for Schiaparelli.
Andy Weir
#30. The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer's life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.
Sol Luckman
#31. There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
Sol Stein
#32. It's the way of the lay, not the size of the prize.
Sol Yurick
#33. A grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted.
Sol Wachtler
#34. Writers of nonfiction have the right - perhaps even the responsibility - to access the wonders of the writer's craft to make their work interesting and enjoyable.
Sol Stein
#35. In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham's answer to God.
Dan Simmons
#36. Imagine, if you will, the possibility to traverse entire solar systems in a single bound. Imagine the possibility of life on other planets, outside the reaches of Sol.
Matthew S. Williams
#37. Maybe it's best that he stayed behind, she thought. It's not like he can look for Sol himself.
Erin Hunter
#38. How sweet to move at summer's eve
By Clyde's meandering stream,
When Sol in joy is seen to leave
The earth with crimson beam;
When islands that wandered far
Above his sea couch lie,
And here and there some gem-like star
Re-opes its sparkling eye.
Andrew Park
#39. The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.
Sol Hurok
#40. The function of suspense is to put the reader in danger of an overfull bladder.
Sol Stein
#41. Well, enough of this introspection. It's depressing, quite frankly.
Sol Luckman
#42. Eldest taught me about ancient religions that worshiped the sun. I never understood why- it's just a ball of light and heat. But if the sun of Sol-Earth swirls in colors and lights like that girl's hair, well, I can see why the ancients would worship that.
Beth Revis
#43. Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.
Coreen T. Sol
#44. A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
Sol Stein
#45. A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.
Sol Stein
#46. In his mother's honor, vowing not to commit the "fashionable stupidity" of ignoring things he didn't understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.
Sol Luckman
#47. Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it's a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.
Sol Luckman
#48. Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.
Sol Saks
#49. Today's readers can be roughly divided into two groups, those who accept the fantasy villains of childhood, as in the James Bond stories and Arnold Schwarzenegger films, and those who insist on credibility.
Sol Stein
#50. You'll have to ask him in the next life," said Sol tiredly. "He's dead.
Dan Simmons
#52. One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual
Sol LeWitt
#53. He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn't inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that "spirit," however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences - which, though he might suppress them, he couldn't altogether erase from memory.
Sol Luckman
#54. With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before - simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.
Sol Luckman
#55. A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
Sol LeWitt
#56. When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
Sol LeWitt
#57. You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer.
Sol Wachtler
#58. The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.
Sol LeWitt
#59. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.
Sol LeWitt
#60. Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.
Sol LeWitt
#61. Calling Sol stubborn was like calling an outhouse aromatic.
Suzie Quint
#62. A writer writes what other people only think.
Sol Stein
#63. The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.
Sol Luckman
#64. The idea becomes a machine that makes art.
Sol LeWitt
#65. In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.
Sol LeWitt
#66. So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.
Sol Luckman
#67. I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it.
Sol Luckman
#69. The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
Sol LeWitt
#70. All necessary measures should be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale. - joint statement signed by both Chaim Weizmann and Prince Faisal
Sol Stern
#71. Sol Campbell there, using his strength. And that is his strength. His strength.
Kevin Keegan
#72. In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
Sol Stein
#73. Sol had not known he was lonely until he met Sarai.
Dan Simmons
#74. Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. "What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America" is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, "our Original Sin.
James W. Loewen
#75. For every transaction, there is someone willing to buy and someone willing to sell at an agreed price, both believing that it's good value and that the counterparty is a little crazy.
Coreen T. Sol
#76. When I look at the fields, all I can see is how fake they are, how poor an imitation they are of the pictures of Sol-Earth fields.
[ ... ]
And that's why I'll never be as good an Eldest as he is.
Because I like a little chaos.
Beth Revis
#77. Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it's too crowded.
Sol Luckman
#78. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.
Sol LeWitt
#79. No amount of pics posted on your web, homepage, blog etc is going to change your devastated image but another humble restarts.
Sol Michael
#80. I've been called worse by better.
Sol Star
#81. Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.
Sol LeWitt
#82. Spanish - how shall I say this? - is like
Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.
Sol Luckman
#83. Most of us, I hope, have had some child or spouse or friend like Beatrice, someone who by his very nature, his seemingly innate goodness and intelligence, makes us uncomfortably conscious of our lies when we lie. Sol
Dan Simmons
#84. Designers devote their efforts to change.
Sol Sender
#85. A tax dollar paid today is far more expensive than one paid in future dollars. With inflation, money becomes less valuable over time because of the cost of goods increases.
Coreen T. Sol
#86. Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.
Sol Luckman
#87. Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms of writing but not for dialogue. Another mistake is speechifying. Three sentences at a time is tops, yet many beginners write speeches that go on and on.
Sol Stein
#88. Unless there is meaning, there is no solution.
Sol Sender
#89. While the Arab guerrillas were moving in, the Arab civilian population was moving out. - I.F. Stone reporting from Israel during 1948 War of Independence
Sol Stern
#92. Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.
Sol Luckman
#93. The nurses did their best to spruce up the antiseptic corridors but the smell of pine boughs was overpowered by Pine Sol and no one paused beneath the mistletoe on the contagious ward.
Robert Zverina
#94. It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along I'd never even spent time around a man. Hell, I'd never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land?
Sol Luckman
#95. They soared with ease, basking in electromagnetic rays from the star Sol, biding their time, grouping, preparing. The planet beneath them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence, which was just how they wanted it for the moment.
Douglas Adams
#96. In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right.
Sol Wachtler
#97. Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.
Sol LeWitt
#98. Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
Sol LeWitt
#99. You can let love slip through your fingers, you can let money slip through your fingers, but if you let your fingers slip through your fingers, you're in trouble.
Sol Weinstein
#100. The single characteristic that most makes a difference in the success of an article or nonfiction book is the author's courage in revealing normally unspoken things about himself or his society. It takes guts to be a writer
Sol Stein
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