Spectrum Quotes

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details. (Albert Einstein)
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. View quote
Noam Chomsky
I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum. View quote
Chantal Kreviazuk
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services. View quote
Robert McChesney
Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work. View quote
Max Beckmann
The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers - the whole spectrum of sedative drugs. View quote
William S. Burroughs
"Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today. View quote
Phil Zimmermann
At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a highly incurable disease, whereas some leukemia forms are very curable. There is a big difference between one form and another. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music. (William Boyd)
Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age. View quote
Claire LaZebnik
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples. View quote
Claire Tomalin
I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle. View quote
Neil LaBute
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for. View quote
Helen Reddy
If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between. View quote
Sara Evans
'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, wailing tune. It's kind of like a total house anthem, in a way, but it seems to be going down really well. We've got all the grunge kids going mad for disco house raves. View quote
Florence Welch
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well. View quote
Ahmad Jamal
I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other. View quote
Billy Sherwood
When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass. View quote
David Sanborn
The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge. (Edward H. Levi)
On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income. View quote
Ginny Brown-Waite
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta. View quote
Johannes Stark
I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum. View quote
John Elway
I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time. View quote
Lou Rawls