“I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsMeanAgeAbleTechnologyMinutesTypeHundredHeightProductiveTechnologicalBasics Author:Larry Gelbart
“Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.” IfsMindLooksMatterSeemsUniverseStarsDealsSupportSeeingHumilityFineDemandHundredEvidenceNotionCreatorDeeperBillionsHeightArroganceAbundanceCosmosPlusWorth ItInsignificantPrecisionIndicatorsImmensitySpecksMind Boggling Book:Why the Universe Is the Way It Is Source: Why the Universe Is the Way It Is
“Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.” YearsMadeTwoNationsSimpleEconomyMilitaryGreatnessPrideHundredYears AgoSizeHeightTonightPatrioticDeclarationPremisesSkyscraper Author:Barack Obama
“I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you." - Jean-Claude” WayYearsDesireThreeChangedHundredIdealsHeightBreastsTallOne TimePetite Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.” MadeSidesNumbersTalkingFiveWifeFeetTenHundredStandingLocalsHeightReachingPoundsTallChestsValentineSkinnySockEmbodimentOverweightJakeSheriffsGirth Author:Karin Slaughter
“When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.” HundredSittingIntimacyHeightChairsElectrons Author:Bill Bryson