Kapitsa Pendulum Quotes & Sayings

Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un ... — Billy F. Gibbons

A writer must be willing to leave oneself behind in order to explore new territories of the mind and unearth primordial truths that startle and frighten us. — Kilroy J. Oldster

It's loud inside my head, with those words I want to say to you. — Jayson Engay

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. — Bertrand Russell

It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live. — Manfred Gerstenfeld

Like water spilt upon the ground
alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass! — Henry Van Dyke

My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world. — Amit Kalantri

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good. — Suzanne Collins

The bonds you make with those records when you're 14, 15 and 16, they'll never be broken, and nothing will ever be as strong as that. — Rivers Cuomo

You will find men like him in all the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. — Arthur C. Clarke

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted ... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past. — Gary Shteyngart

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it, and it's done quickly. — Henry Ian Cusick