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

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

Smiles are the language of love.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Children always turn to the light.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

No one but a fool is always right.

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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?

In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.

In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.

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?

How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

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

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.