Charles H. Townes Quotes

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

Charles H. Townes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MyselfIdeasChristianAlwaysUp

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

MeWillTennisWhateverPlaying

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

John Warnock

PeopleComputersProblemsInformation

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.

Stephen Graham

SomeoneYouKnowPersonalTryOwn

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams.

Sloane Stephens

BestPlayWantTennisGrand

The original Alexandre Dumas was born in 1762, the son of 'Antoine Alexandre de l'Isle,' in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue. Antoine was a nobleman in hiding from his family and from the law, and he fathered the boy with a black slave.

Tom Reiss

FamilySonLawBlackBornSugar

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Tom Stoppard

PersonShoulderWhoResponsibilities

As for restaurants and fast-food places who tip tons of oil down their drains, they are routinely encouraged to use fat traps, but enforcement is minimal. It costs money to cart away fat (although now that fat is being turned into energy, it can make money).

Rose George

MoneyEnergyFatDownNowOil

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.

Robert Wilson

NewImportantSomethingTraditional

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

Ruth Rendell

MoneyI AmYouKnowTwoWonderful

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can't make snap decisions. You can't have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Michelle Obama

Black And WhiteBlackDecisionsYou

I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge.

Molly Antopol

LoveTimeMyselfWritingReading

I'm into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It's all about thinking lovely things that you would like in life, and feeling good about them before they manifest, so that by the time they do, you don't want them because you're on to your next desire.

Julia Sawalha

LifeGoodTimeLawThinkingPhysics

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