Literatuur Betekenis Quotes & Sayings

Brothers - it is not when ones were born by the same mother, brothers - it is when ones were born by the same idea. Kain hadn't a brother. Never. — Pavel Amnuel

Each day, the moon's gravitational field tugs at the earth as it rotates underneath. At CERN, this tiny stress caused the total length of the LEP tunnel to stretch and contract by about a millimeter (one-twenty-fifth of an inch) every day. Not such a big deal in a seventeen-mile-long beam pipe, but enough to cause a tiny fluctuation in the energy of the electrons and positrons - one that was easily detectable by the high-precision instruments. After some initial puzzlement at the daily energy variations, the CERN physicists quickly figured out what was going on. — Sean Carroll

All I want is to have fun in what I'm doing every day. I don't want to break records. To become the greatest player ever could take me like ... 10 more years and I don't think I'll still be playing at 31. — Serena Williams

I did want to feel like life's all of one piece. — Dani Shapiro

Power is the ability to make someone do what they otherwise wouldn't, or deter them from doing what they otherwise would. — David Mitchell

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature. — John Ruskin