Beschreiben In English Quotes & Sayings

The most striking impression was that of an overwhelming bright light. I had seen under similar conditions the explosion of a large amount - 100 tons - of normal explosives in the April test, and I was flabbergasted by the new spectacle. We saw the whole sky flash with unbelievable brightness in spite of the very dark glasses we wore. Our eyes were accommodated to darkness, and thus even if the sudden light had been only normal daylight it would have appeared to us much brighter than usual, but we know from measurements that the flash of the bomb was many times brighter than the sun. In a fraction of a second, at our distance, one received enough light to produce a sunburn. I was near Fermi at the time of the explosion, but I do not remember what we said, if anything. I believe that for a moment I thought the explosion might set fire to the atmosphere and thus finish the earth, even though I knew that this was not possible. — Emilio Segre

The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August.
God, middle age is an unending insult. — Dorothea Benton Frank

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that. — Talib Kweli

O Josephine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has sat down by mistake. — Victor Hugo

Believe me, Doctor, if your life ends in suddenness you will be glad it did, and if it does not you will wish it had. You will want suddenness, Doctor. — Tea Obreht

If you have no destination, you'll never get there. — Harvey MacKay

Does choice exist when I see something very clearly? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when people leave this world there's a corresponding moment of joy when a new baby comes into this world. That first wail is-well, it's magic, isn't it? Perhaps it's a hard thing to say, but joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together. I think we should all take a moment to meditate on that. — Neil Gaiman

Skulduggery walked over slowly. He had picked up his severed arm and was now holding it out to her.
"Here," he said. "Let me give you a hand. — Derek Landy

The media can't get anything straight. — Gore Vidal

How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids. — Anne Nicol Gaylor

Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind. — Bell Hooks

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college. — Danica McKellar

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything! — Mehmet Murat Ildan