Rotation Quotes

• The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Sodium, Vapour, Polarization

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• I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

  Cory Lidle

  Years, Preparation, Matter

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• I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.

  Greg Norman

  Goodbye, Farewell, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Earthquakes, Ideas, Haunting

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• If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Nice, Jeans, Feelings

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• I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

  Samuel Wilson

  Senior, White, Memorial

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• Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

  Don McLean

  Faces, Infatuation, Grows

  Song: If We Try

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• Joy is the mainspring in the whole
  Of endless Nature's calm rotation.
  Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll
  In the great Time-piece of Creation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Moving, Joy, Wheels

  Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.198

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• After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Stars, Attitude, Sunset

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• Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.

  Carroll Smith

  Axes, Racing, Written

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• The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

  John Green

  Thoughts Of You, Hazel Grace Lancaster, Hazel Grace

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.167, Penguin

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• One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

  Roald Hoffmann

  One Day, Molecules, Method

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• I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Thinking, Swings

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• I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Circles, Mind, Body

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."

  Plutarch

  Believe, Moving, Moon

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• Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Inspire, Principles

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• "I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation".

  John Green

  Taken, Thinking, Forever

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, January 10, 2012.

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• In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Distance, Light, Guides

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

  Edith Wharton

  Oats, Crops, Seasons

  The Age of Innocence ch. 31 (1920)

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• It's not just the light weights that give a long toned look with the Tracy Anderson Method, it's using the body in different rotations while contracting and releasing the muscle, causing it to stretch and lengthen.

  Tracy Anderson

  Light, Long, Giving

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• I want to be the horse in the rotation that everybody can really rely on and is going to get that consistent starter.

  Stephen Strasburg

  Horse, Want, Consistent

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• As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.

  Mike Rogers

  War, Reality, World

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• It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally.

  Derek Barton

  Technique, Molecules, Doe

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• For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Opposites, Traveler, Equal

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• When you lose velocity off of your fastball, one thing that suffers is your off-speed pitches - the action on your off-speed pitches. Once you lose arm speed, it takes away rotation from your off-speed pitches. The rotation is what gives them the sharpness and the nastiness.

  Tim Hudson

  Giving, Suffering, Nastiness

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