Charles H. Townes Quotes

It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already known by somebody 25 years before lasers were discovered. The ideas were all there; just, nobody put it together.

Charles H. Townes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 28, 1915 - January 27, 2015

Topics

TogetherIdeasNobodyStrangeWay

Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.

Jimmy Graham

CommunityNewRightEverythingWell

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

Jerry Cantrell

GreatTimeTogetherFriendsLong

I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life.

Ana de la Reguera

LifeFriendBestManStartWeird

When it comes right down to it, no, we're not religious at all.

Johnny Christ

DownRightReligious

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

Amanda Lindhout

TimeDayRoadMomentsLongEasy

Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world.

Trevor Paglen

WorldLogicOrganizingNationOur

Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We've been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California.

Tommy Bond

PastThreePalmCaliforniaGang

ISIS hates the West as an abominable nest of infidels - infidels who reject the Quran and Shariah Law and so must be annihilated. We are the obstacle to the new Caliphate.

Tom Tancredo

LawNewNestObstacleWestMust

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Robert Burns

ManMeNothingFrameConscience

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

Judith Rossner

CourageTimeYourselfWake UpYou

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

MenLuxuriesNecessities

Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Bonnie Raitt

FamilyGreatTimeAppreciationSong

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