Charles Francis Richter Quotes

Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.

Charles Francis Richter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SimpleSafetyGravityReason

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

Jerry Bruckheimer

GoodFeelEnoughYearSometimesGet

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

Joel Madden

I AmPeopleThinkPersonShyStage

Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.

John Goodman

LevelLikeKidsAroundThemGoofing

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

John Muir

NatureGoodAloneWaterYouthYou

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

Robert Menzies

ManToughCountryMoreNeverMay

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

Michael Emerson

PowerPracticePeopleMeReachWill

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

WordsValueMayLastYourEach

If the response to 'Suite Francaise' is any indication, there's a great deal of curiosity about Nemirovsky, and the best way to deal with it is to produce another book. So much of her work has been unavailable, and we want to bring as much of it back into print as possible.

Sonny Mehta

WorkGreatBestCuriosityBookBack

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.

Trent Reznor

DownNowUpAbove

In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases the chance that they'll try to be some other kind of hero. And that, I think, is entirely counterproductive.

Mohsin Hamid

HeroMenChanceThinkAmericanKind

Taking risks gives me energy.

Jay Chiat

RisksMeChanceEnergyTaking Risks

If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops.

Cornelia Parker

ArtSchoolYouMoreCutGoing

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