Fraunhofer Lines Quotes & Sayings

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me — Christina Rossetti

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write? — Ann Patchett

Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun.

{After his banker questioned the value of investigating gold in the Fraunhofer lines of the sun and Kirchhoff handing him over a medal he was awarded for his investigations.} — Gustav Kirchhoff

I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself. — Eiji Yoshikawa

I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors. — Simon Sinek

A real prison breakfast" I said.
"Yeah, but we are free."
And that summed it up. — Patti Smith

All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone. — Lauren Myracle

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning. — Paul Muni

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements. — Ann Bancroft

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable. — Carl Sagan

I wouldn't join the International Criminal Court. This is a body based in The Hague where unaccountable judges, prosecutors, could pull our troops, our diplomats up for trial. And I wouldn't join. And I understand that in certain capitals of, around the world that that wasn't a popular move. But it's the right move not to join a foreign court that could, where our people could be prosecuted. — George W. Bush

This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country. — George W. Bush

You express the truth of your character, your dedication to your goals, and your commitment to your relationships with the choice of your actions. — Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchhoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchhoff has made a totally unexpected discovery, inasmuch as he has found out the cause for the dark lines in the solar spectrum and can produce these lines artificially intensified both in the solar spectrum and in the continuous spectrum of a flame, their position being identical with that of Fraunhofer's lines. Hence the path is opened for the determination of the chemical composition of the Sun and the fixed stars. — Robert Bunsen