Charles Francis Richter Quotes

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

Charles Francis Richter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1900 - September 30, 1985

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HappySmallThreePersonalOutBeen

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Joan Jett

GoodWalkYouWantOutStomach

I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.

Jessica Walter

MoneyThreeMustJustConfessTook

One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?

Matt Dillon

JobMeCompromiseYouNeverWhole

Things that I had created or morphed into, I almost became. I felt like a broken man having to go back to plain old Matt Hardy in many ways.

Matt Hardy

ManBrokenBackGoOldThings

You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.

Ami Ayalon

MorningWake UpRealityIgnoreYou

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

Trombone Shorty

MusicRespectMeLearnI CanPlay

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

Robert Creeley

FamilyTimeMemoryPresentAuthority

Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

Roger Ebert

GoodYouKnowWhyMustBeen

I'm all in favor of the FTC investigating companies when it believes there is proper cause to do so. An investigation, however, can lead to political pressure to bring a case, even if such a case is unwarranted.

Marvin Ammori

PressurePoliticalLeadBringFavor

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

Mitch Daniels

StepYearMoreAskOverPay

We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.

Doug Baldwin

FootballRealityKindPlayingHere

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

Che Guevara

FearBeginningEndWishWillWell

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