Quotes About Barometer

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Progetti, sbuffò Gauss. Chiacchiere, piani, intrighi. Tiritere con dieci prìncipi e cento accademie prima di poter appoggiare un barometro da qualche parte. Quella non era scienza. Ah, esclamò Humboldt, e cos'era allora la scienza? Gauss tirò dalla pipa. Un uomo da solo seduto alla sua scrivania. Un foglio di carta, tutt'al più un cannocchiale davanti alla finestra con un cielo terso. E quest'uomo che non si arrende fino a quando non capisce. Forse quella era scienza.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

Evangelista Torricelli. Torricelli's experiments led to the invention of the mercury-column barometer, which responds to changes in air pressure—that is, to changes in the density of the column of air above the instrument.

The last barometer reading of the day was 28.96, the lowest since the disastrous blizzard in July.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

The perception that if you're not on 'Top Of The Pops' you're dead and buried is a good one for pop music, because 'TOTP' is a catalyst or barometer for pop success.

In short, one deep reality seems, to this view, as absurd as one correct instrument, or the medieval one true religion; and preferring, say, the wave model of matter to the particle model seems as silly as claiming the thermometer tells more of the truth than the barometer.

Ból jest po prostu pytaniem, ktore stawiam samemu sobie, ?eby zmierzy? siÅ'Ä™ swojego pragnienia: jeÅ›li cierpienie mnie powstrzymuje, oznacza to, ?e wÅ'aÅ›ciwie wcale nie zale?y mi na po??danej rzeczy. Gdy jednak okazuje siÄ™ ono jedynie drobnÄ… przeszkodÄ…, wiem, ?e moje pragnienie jest silne, gÅ'Ä™bokie. Ból jest poniekÄ…d barometrem moich chÄ™ci.

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

Stand with your back to the wind," he said, "and the barometer will be lower on your left than on your right.

More than any other form of human expression, art is the barometer that lays bare a period's view of reality, of life, of man.

John Quincy Adams's bald head was a barometer of anger; the redder it got, the madder he was.)

Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you're doing. It's rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.

Hay que cuidarse de confundir causa y efecto, pero en especial de hacer depender el barómetro de los acontecimientos atmosféricos, pero a la causa a la que debemos estar especialmente atentos es a los correlatos, a las relaciones que surgen como resultados de actividades que tienen efectos colaterales y conjuntos.

He checked the barometer he'd nailed to the family room wall: the pressure was rising.

The barometer of a person's living is her/his suffering , but if someone is preaching often to everyone to be enjoying life and being happy all the time , then the people should be watching closely as what s/he is actually doing for making her/his living for leading a lavish lifestyle.

There's perhaps no barometer as credible as the employment provided data per month to gauge the economic health and well-being of the nation.

I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them.