Sunspots Quotes

• The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don’t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He’ll use his word, and if I understand it, I’ll say, “Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Fall, Mean

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• Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent.

  Dennis T. Avery

  Rays, Energy, Records

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• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing Hillary Clinton. Because she could lose. The reason is not that she's a woman. The reason is that she's the particular woman who taught the 4th grade class that every man in America wished he were dead in. Hillary Clinton is Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. Hillary Clinton is "America's ex-wife."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Football, Moon, Men

  "Letter to Our European Friends" by P. J. O'Rourke, www.weeklystandard.com. February 4, 2008.

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• The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.

  Seamus Heaney

  Sueño, Escritura, Noche

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Station Island”, p.93, Macmillan

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• She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.

  Bob Seger

  Baby, Evil, Addresses

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• I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Book, Long

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Soy Leo. Nací en agosto y me encanta el sol. Soy como un gato. Vivimos en una casa muy contemporánea con ventanas por todas partes. Dondequiera que haya una mancha solar, voy a ella con mi bloc amarillo y mi pluma estilográfica y escribo allí.

  Mary Ann Hoberman

  Escribir, Gato, Sol

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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