Striking Quotes

328 quotes by 299 authors

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes… — Charles Babbage
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. — Honore de Balzac
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. — Ambrose Bierce
I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian heritage; he's absolutely striking. — Sandra Bullock
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination. — Jonathan Carroll
Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry. — E. V. Knox
War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships. — Harry Elmer Barnes
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that… — Herbert Wind
The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required to be hit… — Harry Vardon
Among the most striking things that I have learned is how much we have in common. I've sat down with people everywhere, discussing what was… — Hillary Clinton
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the… — Thomas Paine
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary… — Oswald Avery
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals. — Linus Pauling
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the… — John Owen
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state… — George Washington
That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway… — Thomas Friedman
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking… — Frederic Joliot-Curie
What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think… — Philip Ball

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