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Rainer Weiss Quotes

When we initially proposed LIGO, the only sources that we were really contemplating were supernovae. We thought we would see something like one a year, maybe even ten a year.

Rainer Weiss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 29, 1932

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Thought Year See Something Would

I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.

Jo Beverley

Lion World Small Hotel True Up

When I found something I believed in and I cared about and thought I could market and sell and could be thought of creatively - the most important thing to me - I did it.

Jerry Weintraub

Me Thought Important Something Sell

I want a little black girl to pick up my book one day and see herself as the star. I want her to know that she's beautiful, and she matters, and she can have a crazy, magical adventure even if an ignorant part of the world tells her she can never be Hermione Granger.

Tomi Adeyemi

Girl Beautiful Day Adventure Crazy

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

Tom Wolfe

Women Humor Writing Drive You Look

Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage.

Tom Brokaw

Fight Political Find Down Reaction

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

Michael Jordan

Fear Limits Illusion Like Often

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center.

Michael Learned

Girl Me Holidays Windows Grandmother

Hunter High School was a real turning point for me. I found out about its existence through the music school. Nobody I knew had gone to one of these special high schools, and my teachers didn't think it was possible to get in. But Hunter sent me a practice exam, and I studied what I needed to know to pass the exam.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Music School Practice Me Think Know

My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.

Dominic Purcell

Life Style Fighting My Life You

Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.

Demetri Martin

Walk Me Think Thought Laugh Down

I'd love to believe in my government so I could trust law enforcement people again. I don't have that belief any more.

David Thibodeau

Love Trust Government People Law

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

Claire Tomalin

Practical Sensible Very Dickens