A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
“ “The water that flows through the canals is both beautiful and deadly. Its tranquil surface belies the toxins beneath-- unpleasant to… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
…decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and… — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Not just the jobs building the infrastructure, but you need to have a good highway system. You need to have a good… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal.… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth…Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination,… — Lois Gibbs Copy Share Image
The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation. I figure the good Lord will put me in the… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do… — John Green Copy Share Image
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I remember exiting the birth canal and suddenly I was in a film. But you are never really in charge of that.… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image