Titles Quotes - Page 27

• What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Nature, Science, Ideas

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• If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!

  James Merrick

  Fashionable, Inner Life, Known

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• I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

  John Romero

  Technology, Games, Design

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• I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

  Cato the Younger

  Freedom, Men, Tyrants

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• I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the proper rewards of the military' (the desolators of the world in all ages). 'Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts.' Most learned Legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.

  John Joseph Griffin

  Military, Heart, Science

  John Joseph Griffin (1834). “Chemical Recreations: A Series of Amusing and Instructive Experiments, which May be Performed with Ease, Safety, Success, and Economy ; to which is Added, The Romance of Chemistry : an Inquiry Into the Fallacies of the Prevailing Theory of Chemistry : with a New Theory and a New Nomenclature”, p.232

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• Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things ... subservient to the rule of law.

  Elisha Gray

  Nature, Lying, Science

  Elisha Gray (1899). “Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science”

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• I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my life even greater than the European titles. In those school races, I always ran my legs off. There were girls watching and I wanted to impress them. I was foaming and vomiting, but I won

  Juha Vaatainen

  Girl, Running, Team

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• The Community Relations Service would be another pro-civil rights Federal agency attempting to make people do what the policy of the Federal Government demanded that they do. Moreover, in title II of the bill, this Service is made an agent of the court without due thought as to the effect on legal and judicial procedures.

  John Sparkman

  Agency, Rights, Government

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• You bring life to my world you give me strength to go on
  And face life even when it seems all hopes gone
  Labeled my wife but you truly exceed the title
  You my future my happiness my heart my idol

  Fat Joe

  Song, Heart, Idols

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• In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

  Althea Gibson

  Inspirational, Sports, Workout

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• The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Nature, Ocean

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• We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians... I will use the title you have honoured me with to bring the Australian people together... Together we can build a remarkable country, the envy of the rest of the world.

  Lowitja O'Donoghue

  Leadership, Country, Together We Can

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• I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you. [...] I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman."

  Margaret Cho

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Self Esteem

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.

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• You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles

  Jeff Lacy

  Fighting, Walking Away, Two

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• One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will not be remembered, and if not remembered the stories will not be reprinted (because no one can find them).

  Damon Knight

  Memorable, Writing, Stories

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• Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

  Jacques Barzun

  Writing, Opposites, Names

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• A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

  Walker Percy

  Writing, Metaphor, Should

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• The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in between, falls under this rubric. Happy is the person who comes to understand something and then gets to explain it.

  Marshall A. Cohen

  Teacher, Fall, Teaching

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• The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

  Max Euwe

  Machines, Chess, Drawbacks

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• If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Chess, Gains

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Religion, Tests

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• ...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Ideas, Numbers, Quality

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• Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).

  F. M. Scherer

  Taught, Failing, Economics

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• The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

  Richard Dawkins

  Dna, Rivers, Tissues

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

  Layne Staley

  Dope, Whiskey, Junkie

  "Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back". Interview with Jon Wiederhorn, www.rollingstone.com. February 8, 1996.

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