Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“There is less there than meets the eye.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On Prime Minister Clement Attlee, to President Truman, in 1946. When Truman defended Attlee (‘He seems a modest sort of fellow’), Churchill replied ‘He’s got a lot to be modest about.’ As cited in The Origins of the Cold War in Europe (1994), Reynolds, Yale University Press, p. 93 ISBN 0300105622
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“Don’t worry about it. There is less here than meets the eye.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Number of the Beast
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13, p. 497
“There is a good deal more to nothing than meets the eye.”
John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist
Preface
The Book of Nothing (2009)
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)
“One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.”
Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) US philosopher (1907-1977)
Lixion Avila (1950) American meteorologist
On Tropical Storm Juliette in 2007 http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/ep14/ep142007.discus.003.shtml?
“Wall Street's crime, in the eyes of its classical enemies, was less its power than its morals.”
John Kenneth Galbraith book The Great Crash, 1929
Chapter VIII https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Aftermath II, Section IV, p 155 <br class="br">The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Context: To a few of us here today this is a solemn and most momentous occasion, and yet in the history of our nation it is a commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place, as it has for almost two centuries, and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.
