Wurtz Synthesis Quotes & Sayings

The mug was so warm, and my hands so cold, that it didn't feel as if we belonged in the same universe. — Harper Fox

Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens — Max Lucado

They could do anything. That, however, was part of what made it difficult to bring [it] to a close. Infinite possibility was going to collapse, in the act of choosing, to the single world line of history. The future becoming the past: there was something disappointing in this passage through the loom, this so-sudden diminution from infinity to one, the collapse from potentiality to reality which was the action of time itself. The potential was so delicious - the way they could have, potentially, all the best parts of all...time, combined magically into some superb, as-yet-unseen synthesis - or throw all that aside, and finally strike a new path to the heart of just government. . . .To go from that to the mundane problematic...was an inevitable letdown, and instinctively people put it off. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Sacrifice precedes success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Daffodil bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening its lusts and luxuries. — T. S. Eliot

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records. — Stephan Jenkins

I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect.
It's the principle of it. — O.C.

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5. — Claire Danes

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies. — Andre Gide

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded. — Michael Fish

I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb. — Jeff Lindsay

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. — Gianni Versace

(Popular singer Eddie Fisher, appearing on This is Show Business, told Kaufman that women refused to date him because he looked so young.)
Mr. Fisher, on Mount Wilson there is a telescope that can magnify the most distant stars up to twenty-four times the magnification of any previous telescope. This remarkable instrument was unsurpassed in the world of astronomy until the construction of the Mount Palomar telescope, an even more remarkable instrument of magnification. Owing to advances and improvements in optical technology, it is capable of magnifying the stars to four times the magnification and resolution of the Mount Wilson telescope - Mr. Fisher, if you could somehow put the Mount Wilson telescope inside the Mount Palomar telescope, you still wouldn't be able to detect my interest in your problem. — George S. Kaufman

I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep. — Hrithik Roshan

When you place a value on things like health, love, sex and other things, and learn to place a material value on what you've previously discounted for being merely intangible ... you realize you're much, much wealthier than you ever imagined. — Rory Sutherland