Ragnar Frisch Quotes

A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.

Ragnar Frisch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: norwegian
  • Birth: March 3, 1895 - January 31, 1973

Topics

LightDayTravelMindThoughtReach

I am that 'everyman' in that I have made every mistake you can make in your career and in your personal life. But I am a survivor.

Joe Piscopo

LifeI AmMistakeYouCareerMade

I fought Dan Henderson in 2009, and I lost, and that was at UFC 100 - UFC 100 was the biggest pay-per-view the company's ever done. 1.6 million pay-per-view buys, watched all over the world, and of course, I get knocked out cold after talking lots of smack leading up to the fight. So I got my just desserts in that one.

Michael Bisping

FightWorldColdTalkingLostDone

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Tom Waits

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Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

Rita Ora

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My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.

Lucy Punch

MotherGrowing UpLovedGrowingHim

My dad never quit no matter what. He couldn't see, but he never let that stop him. Most people, when something like that happens, they just think their life is over. But that's not true. My dad can still do things like a normal person. He still cooks; he still watches my sister and my brother's baby when my mom's not home.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Bobby Thomson

HomeNew YorkMeGameFamousYear

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

Ali Smith

YouWantNeverSheTombstoneWanted

Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.

Phylicia Rashad

NatureCreativeMovingWorldBack

It was a nerve-wracking first few years having to tour and perform in front of people with the little bit of confidence I had.

Syd

ConfidencePeopleFirstYearsLittle

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

Martin Feldstein

GrowWillMoreTradeInterestEver

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

Esperanza Spalding

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