Quote by Wallace Stegner Download Open image “There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.” — Wallace Stegner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Doorbells are like a magic game, Or the grab-bag at a fair -- You never know when you hear one ring Who may be… — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
“If it dies, it's biology; if it blows up, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics!" As quoted from grafitti on a bathroom… — John Wilkes Copy Share Image
Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The demonstration starts by filling the two beakers almost to their brims with water and then placing them side-by-side, lips touching. An electrode immersed… — Gerald H. Pollack Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. —” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
