For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there. — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
If you want things to change to different things, you must think different thoughts. And that simply requires finding unfamiliar ways of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way.… — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia.… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
Sometimes we become so expert in our own domain, we forget that customers may be less familiar. — Ron Kaufman Copy Share Image
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
I think titles are tricky because they're like a really short ad for the book. And like an ad, they should open… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I played a ton of special teams at LSU. I'm familiar with it, I'm comfortable doing it. — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
“You know this girl. Her hair is neither long nor short nor light nor dark. She parts it precisely in the middle.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
death ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image