Hans Christian von Baeyer (1938) American physicist
Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 15, Ultimate Speed, The information speed limit, p. 135
Republican Party Reptile (1987)
Hans Christian von Baeyer (1938) American physicist
Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 15, Ultimate Speed, The information speed limit, p. 135
“You only have one life. Whatever crops up, crops up.”
Jack Steinberger (1921) Swiss physicist
Interview http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/steinberger-interview.html with the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jack Steinberger, at the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org http://nobelprize.org/.
“How many realms since Troy have been o'erthrown?
How many nations captive led? How oft
Has Fortune up and down throughout the world
Changed slavery for dominion?”
Quot post excidium Trojae sunt eruta regna?
Quot capti populi? quoties Fortuna per orbem
Servitium imperiumque tulit, varieque revertit?
Book I, line 506, as reported in Dictionary of Quotations (classical) (1897) by T. B. Harbottle, p. 248.
Astronomica
Huey Long (1893–1935) American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator
Huey Long (Williams p. 761)
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Che rilevare un che Fortuna ruote
Talora al fondo, e consolar l'afflitto,
Mai non fu biasmo, ma gloria sovente.
Canto X, stanza 14 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Ariel Sharon (1928–2014) prime minister of Israel and Israeli general
2000s <br class="br">Source: "Clashes mar Mid-East inquiry," at news.bbc.co.uk, March 25, 2001 ( online) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1241371.stm
“… only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them….”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.”
Colin Wilson book The Outsider
Source: The Outsider (1956), p. 139
“Lay down the competition take they cash crops and get my push on”
Bun B (1973) American rapper from Texas; 1/2 of UGK
The Game Belongs to me
Too Hard to Swallow (1992), Underground Kingz (2007)
“It's not a problem to put it up, It's a problem to take it down.”
Rafic Hariri (1944–2005) Lebanese businessman and politician
Talking about the posters that appeared everywhere in Lebanon, of Hafez al-Assad, 1993. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/15/international/middleeast/15hariri.html?_r=0