Their Familiar Quotes
- The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians:… — William S. Burroughs
- It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar… — Victor Francis Hess
- Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and gaze,… — John Daniel
- For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these… — Johannes Stark
- Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of… — Charles Dickens
- After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar jackets take charge… — Bill Dedman