Compton Quotes

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

For all the heartache, pain, and suffering. The grief and the torture. The hatred and the depravity. The abuse and the isolation. For all of the negativity and darkness this cruel world has to offer. Sometimes, just sometimes, the clouds part, the sun shines, and life reminds you why it's good to be alive. ~ A.J. Compton

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole. ~ Arthur Holly Compton

All great adventures start with an idea. ~ A.J. Compton

If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California. ~ Venus Williams

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business. ~ Henry Rollins

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd. ~ Arthur Holly Compton

Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate career and usually had no idea how I was spending my time. ~ Luis W. Alvarez

I will fight death for my right to live until my last breath. ~ A.J. Compton

Well, the English have no family feelings. That is, none of the kind you mean. They have them, and one of them is that relations must cause no expense. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

I love you," Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn't.
"That's what you all keep saying," I answered. "But it doesn't seem to get me any happier. ~ Charlaine Harris

He's on the school bus and Uncle Wade is standing outside the window. The bus hasn't pulled out yet and Uncle Wade is punching the air and ducking his head and giving him a thumbs up sign and then a big smile. The big smile says do not worry. It says you can do this. ... His smile says a lot and so do his punching hands and his hooked thumbs, and before everything else it can possibly say, it says the thing Nick needs most. The big smile says I love you. ~ Sheldon Lee Compton

I doubt if many of my contemporaries, especially the older ones, did many exercises. I have often tried to picture (Godfrey) Evans and (Denis) Compton doing press-ups in the out field before the days play, but so far have failed miserably. ~ Peter May

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

real-world-immersion friends in Compton. ~ Kevin Kwan

This is one of those moments when I wish I could be young forever. Not just stop time for a second, but for an eternity.

The old paradox that youth is wasted on the young is not true for us. Neither I nor my friends take our youth for granted.

In fact, all of the young people I know are all too aware that someday soon time and gravity won't be on their side anymore.

And there's nothing we can do about it. So the young do the only thing they can do. They live and they love and they dance and they sing, they dream and they scheme, they ponder and they plan.

Like there's no tomorrow. For tomorrow brings us one day closer to the inevitable and one day further from the impossible.

And being young is all about achieving the impossible. Or at least believing you can. The old mistake our denial for ignorance, our immaturity for irresponsibility.

We understand the rules of life, we just don't want to play by them.

Not yet.

Not today.

Not tonight.

Because tonight is a good night to be young and alive. ~ A.J. Compton

A comfortable rut and a grave are very much alike. The only real difference is the dimensions. ~ Ralph Compton

The bridge between the electron and the other elementary particles is provided by the fine structure constant, a ~ 1/137, as manifested in the factor-of-137 spacings between the classical electron radius, electron Compton radius, and Bohr orbit radius. ... An a-quantized mass-generation grid extends accurately from the electron all the way to the top quark t, and leads to a corresponding a-quantized particle lifetime grid. ~ Malcolm H. Mac Gregor

I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better. ~ O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen ~ Compton Mackenzie

I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time. ~ Ice Cube

We've gotten to that stage all soulmates reach of speaking in broken phrases and incomplete sentences, our connected and all-knowing minds filling in the blanks left by redundant words. ~ A.J. Compton

We're once again just a boy and a girl searching and failing for words and moments that transcend the mundane. ~ A.J. Compton

Some people always have a touch of youth about them. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar's last breath. ~ Arthur Compton

Adequate photographers use their sight, good photographers use their senses, and great photographers use their souls. ~ A.J. Compton

In 1994, NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory detected something as unexpected as the Velas' discoveries: frequent flashes of gamma rays right near Earth's surface. They were sensibly dubbed "terrestrial gamma-ray flashes." Nuclear holocaust? No, as is evident from the fact that you're reading this sentence. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

Did you ever notice how the words Attention and Alienation look the same when you are staring at them from a distance? ~ Alisia Compton

I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life. ~ Tyga

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

I love just being passionate about something rather than just caring about the money or whos in the movie. ~ Scout Taylor-Compton

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

To nineteenth-century leaders the principle was not just an optional revelation - they viewed it as the most important revelation in Joseph Smith's life, which is what he undoubtedly taught them. If they accepted him as an infallible prophet, and if they wanted full exaltation, they had no recourse but to marry many plural wives. Their devotion to Joseph the seer outweighed their experience of polygamy's impracticality and tragic consequences for women, which many men probably did not even recognize.

But it is worth noting that the women who suffered so much under polygamy gave it their unqualified support in public rallies and wrote impassioned defenses of it. They too were devoted to the idea that their church was led by practically infallible, authoritative prophets, especially Joseph Smith. ~ Todd M. Compton

The word meltdown had not yet entered the reactor engineer's vocabulary - Fermi was only then inventing that specialty - but that is what Compton was risking, a small Chernobyl in the midst of a crowded city. ~ Richard Rhodes

I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't."
"The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock. ~ Charlaine Harris

Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That's it. ~ A.J. Compton

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. ~ Arthur H. Compton

Never is a long word. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

He greeted the twins like they were all from the same hood in Compton and gave Dex and me the head nod. ~ Karina Halle

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

We kiss with our eyes closed but our senses open, infusing the spaces between with the elements of the other. ~ A.J. Compton

Monkeys seldom sit. Likewise, only even less so, bare-assed Homo sapiens, man in the Garden, man before the Fall. His rump isn't that tough. So it might be said that the ease with which today we park our bald and flaccid bums at the slightest excuse represents the finest flower of our civilization. Be that as it may, at that time whenever I sat and became aware that I sat I felt squalid. I felt lax, despicably passive, as if my ass were some gigantic parasitic sucker clapped onto the rest of creation. ~ D.G. Compton

As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence. ~ Compton Mackenzie

In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else. ~ Karl Taylor Compton

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' ~ Arthur H. Compton

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world ~ Karl Taylor Compton

There is more difference within the sexes than between them. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

I'm hallucinating meaning. ~ A.J. Compton

Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" he said "Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it. ~ Charlaine Harris

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth. ~ O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

I would lose him a thousand lifetimes over if it meant I got the chance to love him a thousand times. And have him love me back.

If only for a little while. ~ A.J. Compton

Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order of science makes possible, for the first time, a cooperative creative effort in which every one is the gainer and no one the loser ... ~ Karl Taylor Compton

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years. ~ Harry Shearer

This entire cast, N.W.A, was an all-star group, and I really feel like people are going to look at 'Straight Outta Compton' years from now like this was an all-star cast. ~ O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

He that observes the wind shall not sow; and he that regards the clouds shall not reap. ~ COMPTON GAGE

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

I can eraser you out just as easily as I can pencil you in. ~ Brenda Lee Compton

I loved him before I knew him. I missed him before I met him. We were soulmates long before we were strangers. ~ A.J. Compton

No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods. ~ Karl Taylor Compton

We each get twenty-four hours.
1,440 minutes.
86,400 seconds.

Every day for the rest of your days.

You can't make more, or give any away.

But you can prioritize them for the right people, or waste them on the wrong ones. ~ A.J. Compton

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

Speaking of things robs them of half their terrors. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

There were a lot of botched kills throughout the eastern part of Kentucky when the work fell outside his control. Six or seven years ago, a man from Perry County was shot point blank in the head and left for dead in the middle of downtown. Problem was, the bullet had traveled between the man's scalp and his skull halfway across his head and exited the same way it had entered on the other side. The whole thing had left him with only fingernail-sized contusions on both sides of his head. He identified the guy who shot him and saw him arrested and convicted of attempted murder.
Now, it's true that a situation like that was a rare one, but part of doing a job right was minimizing the chance for something to go wrong. ~ Sheldon Lee Compton

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. ~ Arthur Holly Compton

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. ~ Compton Mackenzie

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

Everything is breaking stones, up to a point. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams ~ Compton Mackenzie

To young people the future is still long. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

Grief is always amplified in silence. ~ A.J. Compton

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

I can say is if anyone gets a chance to work with [Dr.]Dre, it's a moment you will always take with you throughout your career. And as of right now, the Compton album is the only thing to talk about. ~ Kendrick Lamar

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country. ~ Kym Whitley

So there you have it: hearing voices at sea is not a pathological condition. It's quite normal. Welcome to the world of illusions at sea. Of mirages, looming, towering, stooping and sinking. Of moons that change size, suns that change shape, horizons that bend, lights that change colour, and sounds that play hide and seek. Of waves that speak, ships that effervesce and whales that turn into baby elephants. For the sea has a lobsterpot full of tricks and illusions to confuse and beguile even the most rational 21st century sailor. ~ Nic Compton

I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley. ~ Kendrick Lamar

I'm a feeler. I feel everything deep within my core. Even when I don't want to. I don't know where my emotions stop and my empathy begins. I feel from the tips of my toes to the follicles of my head. I feel with every fiber, every molecule, every tissue, marrow, muscle, and bone in my body. I feel. ~ A.J. Compton

Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church. ~ Charlaine Harris

It is in our minds that we live much of our life. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

Legacies are not just for legends. Whether a million people know your name, or only one person does, you still have the right to leave your mark on the world, even if it's only in your tiny corner of it, in the tiniest of ways.

Not all of us will achieve great heights and feats. Most of us will never leave our hometown or country, let alone conquer Everest. And you know what? That's okay.

Because real life is what happens in between moments of greatness. It's the little things that at the end of it all, you realize were greater than the sum of their parts. It's the amount of times you laughed, or cried, danced, sang, created, inspired, and made someone smile.

The best kind of legacies are the ones that are unseen. You'll never fully be able to measure the effect of a smile or a kind word, but I promise you, the most whispered phrase can send a shockwave around the world that lasts for centuries, or even an eternity. ~ A.J. Compton

The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek." ~ Arthur Compton

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

And suddenly I realize that all those books and movies had gotten it wrong.

When you find your souls reflection in another, you shouldn't be aware of anything other than their body, yours, and the space between.

You shouldn't be looking for someone whose kiss causes you to escape reality by transporting you to another time and place.

Look for the person whose kiss grounds you firmly in the moment, whose arms hold you safely in the now. ~ A.J. Compton

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

Things can't mend without being broken. ~ A.J. Compton

The most original novelist now writing in English. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ... ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

People have never lost what they think they have. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks. ~ Venus Williams

I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over."
I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?"
That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it. ~ Charlaine Harris

We are always children to our mothers. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

There's magic and metaphors in music superior to any other art form. An exquisite alchemy is involved in mixing pieces of your self and soul into the precisely perfect blend of harmonies, melodies, and lyrics that strike a chord. ~ A.J. Compton

My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them. ~ Ice Cube