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Quotes About Magnetic

I smile when he tells me the story. It's also the first time I've smiled at him. He smiles back at me. It seems as intimate to me, as magnetic, as skin against skin.
~ Philippe Besson
Over the years, Leila had come to believe that politicians were literally made of special stuff, chemically different stuff. The senator was flabby and bad-haired and acne-scarred and yet completely magnetic.
~ Jonathan Franzen
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
~ Victor Francis Hess
In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.
~ Pieter Zeeman
The parts of people that are the most lovable is usually the thing they're least willing to share: the tender, vulnerable side of people that's endearing and magnetic and lovable - that's the part they hide.
~ Zach Woods
I can't say I'm not guilty of age discrimination when it comes to animals. Like most people I've walked into a shelter more than a few times and a magnetic force has pulled me toward those fluffy little puppies in the corner cage.
~ Jenna Morasca
I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.
~ Alison Moyet
All my good is magnetic, and I educate, not by lessons, but by going about my business.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.
~ Walt Whitman
one of the big problems with brainstorming in general: Many ideas are tossed out, but the groups often don't know how to winnow down to the best ideas. It can be easier to winnow down questions because the best questions are magnetic—they intrigue people, make them want to work more on those. RQI recommends coming out of a session with three great questions that you want to explore further.
~ Warren Berger
Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
~ Dave Barry
She was a masterpeace of composure; nothing ever ruffled her or made her upset, and though she was not beatiful her calmness had the magnetic pull of beauty – a stillness so powerful that the molecules realigned themselves around her when she came into a room.
~ Donna Tartt
Someone is writing a poem. Words are being set down in a force field. It's as if the words themselves have magnetic charges; they veer together or in polarity, they swerve against each other.
~ Adrienne Rich
Chinook salmon inherit a magnetic map along with the ability to taste and smell the differences among rivers.
~ Alanna Mitchell
Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
~ Laura Linney
Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
~ Francesca Annis
The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber.
~ Charles Platt
But perhaps life has a tendency to converge on a pathway, something like a magnetic pull that draws it back despite temporary deviations.
~ Richard Dawkins
Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.
~ Bridget Moynahan
If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.
~ Demetri Martin
ejercían la atracción irresistible de las mujeres alegres y sonrientes y proclives a la carcajada;
~ Javier Marías
In a sense, the searches for both magnetic monopoles and gravity waves are very similar. But, theoretically, gravity waves are more solid.
~ Barry Barish
Sunspots are hubs of intense magnetic activity and they trigger solar flares that launch charged particles, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation and radio waves at the Earth.
~ Simon Singh