Irregular Quotes
53 quotes by 48 authors
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To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true…
— Howard W. Hunter
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On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in…
— Broda Otto Barnes
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Problems associated with the menstrual cycle are now commonplace. The majority of teenagers whom I have seen suffer problems such as PMS, severe cramping, and…
— Mark Starr
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The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
— Thomas Otway
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
— Karlheinz Stockhausen
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I model irregular clothing.
— Jay London
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Are the atoms of the dextroacid (tartaric) grouped in the spirals of a right-hand helix or situated at the angles of an irregular tetrahedron, or…
— Louis Pasteur
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There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others…
— Democritus
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There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.
— Ivor Cutler
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My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
— Lincoln Steffens
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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
— Samuel Johnson
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There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or…
— Edouard Manet
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The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.
— Steven Pinker
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I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that…
— Steven Pinker
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The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
— Erez Lieberman Aiden
Who Wrote These Irregular Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 53 Irregular Quotes, led by these top contributors: