Gochar Quotes & Sayings

The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of X-ray analysis, as by the restricted number of investigators who have had a training in the technique of the new science, and by the time it naturally takes for its scientific and technical importance to become widely appreciated. — William Lawrence Bragg

I want a god to curse. I'll take any of them, all of them; I'll scream and blaspheme till lightning shuts me up. — Isaac Marion

In the room full of individuals for whom I hold feelings of resentment about,
Who might be the first I would converse with, when I am about to bite the dust? — Nishikant

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have got a complicated world, and we have an explanation in terms of a slightly simpler world, and we explain that in terms of a slightly simpler world and it all hangs together down to an ultimately simple world. Now, God is not an explanation of that kind. God himself cannot be simple if he has power to do all the things he is supposed to do. — Richard Dawkins

From the way he inspected her, it almost seemed that he didn't trust her. Did he know about her meeting with Liss? He turned away without saying more and pushed back into the party, his guard following. What is going on in this palace? — Brandon Sanderson

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn. — David Hockney

I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity. — Robyn Davidson

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. — Elizabeth Bowen

Under what circumstances would those who are the beneficiaries of colonialism stop denying and choose to act differently? — Paulette Regan

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences. — Paulo Coelho

This can be your year. No, let me rephrase that: this will be your year. The year you reveal your brilliance. The year you get into world-class health. The year you fall madly in love with life. And make each one of your moments works of art. Keep shining. — Robin S. Sharma

When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all
cash, booze, and a wife
he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground. — Denis Johnson

I think the nicest thing about days is their unexpectedness. It's jolly to wake up like this on a golden-fine morning and day-dream for ten minutes before I get up, imagining heaps of splendid things that might happen. — L.M. Montgomery