David Rittenhouse Quotes

In order to know the true situation of a Planet at any particular time, the small set of balls are to be put each on its respective axis; then the winch to be turned round until each index points to the given time.

David Rittenhouse

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 8, 1732 - June 26, 1796

Topics

TimeSmallSituationKnowTrueSet

My friends make me laugh: funny Instagram videos, but mostly people falling over. It's so bad, but it never gets old. I just love how people cover up their falls. The whole experience of 'Oh, I just fell, and I'm going to run out of the fall and pretend I did this on purpose.' I just like to see how people cover up their mishaps.

Jillian Hervey

FunnyLoveExperiencePurposePeople

Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for.

John Harwood

WorkLoyaltyResponsibilityHonest

No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.

Anderson Cooper

WarCareMissedWillSierraReally

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

John Turturro

CharacterMeFirstScaryFilmFive

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

Stephen Pagliuca

TimePlansGroundCreatedSpecific

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

Simon Callow

ChildrenHappyParentsFeelUpMake

Rock guitar is one of my favourite sounds.

Trombone Shorty

GuitarRockSoundsFavourite

A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.

Tracy K. Smith

StruggleBelievePossibilitiesDoubt

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

FamilyHistoryWorldLongCorporate

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

ExperienceI AmMeWritingLanguage

Taking a night off from comedy to go on a date with someone I'm probably not going to like anyway sounds like the worst trade-off in my mind.

Michelle Wolf

MindNightComedySomeoneGoWorst

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

TimeSucceedBuildingProblemsWill

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by David Rittenhouse