Vortices Quotes

#1. Its aura distorts hard edges. Shimmering vortices of discoloration boil off, swirling, licking the
cold night air with bright spectral fire. Violence and death, this one's still hot.

Michael Allan Scott

#2. Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

Lord Kelvin

#3. The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.

Isaac Newton

#4. Desert time refused to structure itself. It preferred instead to flow in curlicues, vortices and tunnels, ...

Robyn Davidson

#5. In this way, metaphorically speaking, a strong lens applied to Mrs. Cadwallader's match-making will show a play of minute causes producing what may be called thought and speech vortices to bring her the sort of food she needed.

George Eliot

#6. In wakeful nights, as one may fancy, the wild soul of the man, tossing amid these vortices, would hail any light of a decision for them as a veritable light from Heaven; any making-up of his mind, so blessed, indispensable for him there,

Thomas Carlyle

#7. When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.

Alice Oswald

#8. Sound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really very powerful.

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

#9. When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

Arthur Koestler

#10. Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

Manly Hall

#11. What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels!

Benjamin Franklin

#12. Simple living is about being authentic and living an examined life and if you've thought about the values you want to live by, be confident and stick with them no matter what others around you are doing.

Rhonda Hetzel

#13. Dying for somebody or for something, that was perfectly normal, of course; but the person dying should know, or at least feel sure, that someone knows for whom or for what he is dying; the disfigured face was asking just that; and that was where the haze began.

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

#14. The dead win when you quit singing and let them take you on down the road with them.

Joe Hill

#15. Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

Erich Fromm

#16. We're lovers who became friends who became everything.

J. Daniels

#17. The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.

Kedar Joshi

#18. There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

Joseph Fiennes

#19. Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.

Rand Paul

#20. I don't need protection." Not that she minded, of course. She always protected. It's what she did every moment of the day, and that small span of time when he'd protected her had been, well like a present.
"Don't need it, no." He gave her the coordinates, and she got moving. "Deservie it, yes.

Lauren Dane

#21. It's amazing how much people talk about colonics here. That's not a thing anywhere else in the country. But I totally did a juice cleanse, I did a colonic - I'm getting into L.A. living!

Kurt Braunohler

#22. Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.

Blythe Baird

#23. Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.

Henry Fairlie

#24. When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

Yves Behar