Quotes About Magnetic

Among the many spots used by philosophers and astronomers over the centuries to mark the meridian for zero degrees longitude were Ferro, in the Canary Islands; Ujjain, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; the "agonic line" (a line along which true north and magnetic north coincide, but not forever) that passed through the Azores; the Paris Observatory; the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; the White House; and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Gregori turned the full power of his magnetic silver eyes on her. "I can make the earth shake beneath your feet and bring lightning from the sky to do my bidding. I can close off your airway with a thought. I am all things from a mouse to a wolf running free. Is this not enough for you to believe?" he inquired softly.

He was attractive in a rather solid, dark, hairy way.

Next my guide explained that we would travel to Erie on an underground high-speed vehicle called a "floater," which ran in vacuum through a tunnel, supporting itself on magnetic fields

It's as if attentive people create a magnetic force field for stor- ies the tellers themselves didn't know they had within them.

By far the larger number of the dreams occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind.

dynamic and dead sexy.

Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart.

Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

She knew that the initial feelings associated with love were almost like an ocean wave in their intensity, acting as the magnetic force that drew two people together. It was possible to be washed away in the emotion, but the wave wouldn't last forever. It couldn't—nor was it meant to be—but if two people were right for each other, a truer kind of love could last forever in its wake.

Sweet magnetic Jesus on the dashboard. On the table?'

They generally packaged known technologies in a unique architecture and enabled the use of these products in applications where magnetic data storage and retrieval previously had not been technologically or economically feasible.

God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God's language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God.

De pronto comprendí en lo más profundo de su ser a esas criaturas misteriosas que viven a mi alrededor: Se mueven sin voluntad por su existencia, agitadas por una corriente magnética invisible igual que hace un momento flotaba el ramo de novia, arrastrado por el arroyo de mugre.

But the culture that a teacher creates acts like a magnetic field that attracts, stimulates, and rewards certain habits of mind and not others.

I'm magnetic, she whispered, half awed and half horrified. I hope you don't start sticking to fridges and stuff, I said in disbelief. Fang dropped down next to me, and the Gasman joined us, squishing in next to Nudge. What's going on? Fang asked. I'm Magnet Girl! Nudge said, already coming to terms with her new skill.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries.

In 1974/75, I spent a sabbatical year with Professor Vince Jaccarino and Dr. Alan King at the University of California in Santa Barbara to get a taste of nuclear magnetic resonance. We solved a specific problem on the bicritical point of MnF2, their home-base material. We traded experience, NMR, and critical phenomena.

In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

Magnetic sensations are different because, unlike light and sound, they can pass through body tissues. This means that it is possible for a bird (or other organism) to detect magnetic fields via chemical reactions inside individual cells throughout its entire body.

It appears that it is the robin's ability to see contours and edges in the landscape that provides the appropriate signal to trigger the magnetic sense. Extraordinary! As one of my colleagues said: 'You couldn't make this stuff up.

Cats do this thing with their faces where they're so still, but they have this almost magnetic connection to anything they're observing.