Osmium Uses Quotes & Sayings

Jacob thought about going home. He still had some American change, which he kept in an empty matchbox in his sock drawer, and one night, after he had finished his pancakes and jam, he took the coins out, spread them on the kitchen table, and admired the burnt sienna patina of one of the pennies, which in the candlelight was iridescent with violet and green where people's touch had salted it. The portrait of Lincoln was ugly and noble, and Jacob took off his glasses to look more closely. On the other side, an erratic line of shrubbery was engraved beside the Lincoln monument's steps. The idealism seemed to be in Lincoln rather than in the coin's design, which was homely. It was so homely, in fact, that there was a kind of democratic grandeur to it. It was the most beautiful currency in the world. Jacob was on the verge of tears. — Caleb Crain

but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer. — Chris Stapleton

If they're uncomfortable to who you are, maybe they're not your native flock. Find your own, liberate yourself and live as you meant to be. — Assegid Habtewold

I've gotten to believe it's more fun to play politicians than actually be them. — Rob Lowe

I could now (possibly) go back and restretch those shrunken hours, flake the images separate, arrange them in accurate chronological order, (possibly; with will-power, patience, and the proper chemicals) but being accurate is not necessarily being honest ... Nor is chronological reporting by any means always the most truthful (each camera has its own veracity) especially when, in all good faith, one cannot truthfully claim to remember what happened accurately ... — Ken Kesey

Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that. — George W. Bush

God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; — Charlotte Bronte

Frida. So after all, it is not for nothing that I was born a poet. For now she is going forth into the great wide world, that I once yearned so passionately to see. Little Frida sets out in a splendid covered sledge with silver bells on the harness - — Henrik Ibsen

There's nothing my housekeeper does that I can't do - and maybe better! — Ivana Trump

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back. — John McCain

My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want? — Anonymous

As the story goes, Albert Einstein's wife Elsa remarked, upon hearing that a telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory was needed to determine the shape of space-time: Oh, my husband does this on the back of an old envelope. — Edward Frenkel

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Plan your hours to be productive ... Plan your weeks to be educational ... Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow. — Iyanla Vanzant