Hans Geiger Quotes & Sayings

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer. — Yoko Ono

Niggas frown when you up and smile when you down. And when you change for the better, shife fools stop comin' around. — Pimp C

In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong. — Carl Sagan

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home. — Jim Parsons

Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running. — Rodman Philbrick

The bottom fell out of my stomach. It was like putting a foot wrong on a frozen creek, the crack of ice, and sudden drop, the knowledge that there was nothing beneath but dark water. — Leigh Bardugo

In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation. — Lois Lowry

Just as Tom Gau could, through the persuasive force of his personality, serve as a Tipping Point in a word-of-mouth epidemic, the people who die in highly publicized suicides-whose deaths give others "permission" to die-serve as the Tipping Points in suicide epidemics. — Malcolm Gladwell

Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a second language, not their mother tongue. How many people would accept to be tested for their IQ level not in their primary language? — T.K. Naliaka

It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling. — Svetlana Khorkina

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon. — Rory McCann

Death is something ancient, but it comes fresh to each of us. — Ivan Turgenev