Simon Newcomb Quotes

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Simon Newcomb

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GreatPrayerManMeDownMeeting

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

John Hench

ColorsColorStandEngineersFinish

Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help clog arteries in the brain, it may also help to seed the amyloid plaques that riddle the brain tissue of Alzheimer's victims.

Michael Greger

BrainEatingSeedFatHelpYou

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

Stefano Langone

LifeSongComebackMy LifeKidWere

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

Sophie Okonedo

MindTheatreFaceFeelDoingYear

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

Sondre Lerche

AloneFeelWriteConcertSomething

Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.

Shukla Bose

WorkEducationChildrenSocietyEnd

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

Robin Marantz Henig

WordsLanguageMeaningDeception

I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, 'Who is this guy? He's dope!' First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, 'Eh.' He started to get really successful. He wasn't 'mine' anymore.

Russell Peters

TimeHip-HopDopeFirst TimeFirst

When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.

Luke Hemsworth

ChangeSomeoneYouGoKnowMeet

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Dennis Potter

TruthImaginationDownActOwnMust

I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.

David Shields

TransformationBelievePublic Domain

You learn to respect team chemistry. It's the fourth quarter, there's two minutes left, the shot clock is winding down, and we're like, 'What do we do?' We didn't have that flow. Chemistry comes down to repetition. It's not, 'We've played some games; we have chemistry now.'

Chris Bosh

RespectTeamLearnYouDownFlow

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