James Prescott Joule Quote

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.

Hermann von Helmholtz

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.

Werner Heisenberg

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Saint Augustine

Consequences are unpitying.

George Eliot

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Karl Lagerfeld

Order doesn't come by itself.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Ambition aspires to descend.

Pierre Corneille

• Ambition

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Buddha

One must have something to die for in order to have something to live for.

Carlos Castaneda

• Death
• Life

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

• Happiness

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

• Success

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

Brad Pitt

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Coco Chanel

Do we need distance to get close?

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sex is emotion in motion.

Mae West

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Woody Allen

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Jean Cocteau

• Art
• Artist

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Aesop

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.

Paul Newman