Le Verrier Neptune Quotes & Sayings

I'll project myself into several futures simultaneously," I should have said, "a minor tremor in my hand; I'll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid. — Ben Lerner

Don't be silly, Phryne, I'm an - ' 'Invert?' said Phryne. 'Of course you are.' She said this as though he had just claimed to have blue eyes, as something utterly ordinary. 'And that means,' John persisted, 'that I am a sinner.' 'Rubbish,' said Phryne sharply. 'No one can help whom they love. I am positive that your God doesn't care a fig. — Kerry Greenwood

Le Verrier - without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky - had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen! — Camille Flammarion

By the anointing if your goal for me is to be poor, you will not achieve it, in the name of Jesus — Ademola Adejumo

We shouldn't judge people. But there's a difference between judging and observing. And sometimes as we observe, our eyebrows become raised. Observation with an attitude, that's what I like to call it. — C. JoyBell C.

If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet? — Steven Wright

It is not surprising, of course, that those who attempt to discredit the evidence of Scripture are the people who themselves do not seriously read, know, or make a thorough study of the Scriptures. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What were you thinking?"
"Not much, clearly."I hear the exasperation in Kacey's voice.
"I don't know about you, Livie ... Sometimes you're as graceful as a one-legged flamingo in a pit of quicksand. — K.A. Tucker

I'm a fish swimming by Ray. Catch me if you want me. — Janet Fitch

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequalities.
[Following the success of the confirmation of the existence of the planet Neptune, he considered the possibility of the discovery of a yet further planet.] — Urbain Le Verrier

Art is not a democracy. — George R R Martin

To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Either this guy's one in a million or you're a psychotic bitch.
Torre, Alessandra (2014-08-24). Black Lies (Kindle Locations 1787-1788). Alessandra Torre. Kindle Edition. — Alessandra Torre

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken. — Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? — Eugenio Montale

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. — Joanna Baillie