examples of amorphous solids

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. ~Griff Niblack



Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. ~Goethe



Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century. ~Author Unknown



I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. ~Charles Dickens



Short A: Of course, that's what they're here for.



Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. ~Isaac Asimov



I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. ~Amory Lovins



You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. ~Sri Sathya Sai Baba



My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter? ~Kotomichi



Beyond my body my veins are invisible. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. ~Edward Abbey



When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. ~Gene Perret



It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. ~Malcolm Forbes



The saddest are these: "It might have been!"



The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world? ~Denis Johnston, The Brazen Horn



Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. ~Howard Nemerov



If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ~Sam Snead



He who excuses himself accuses himself. ~Gabriel Meurier, Tresor des sentences



Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. ~Euripides, Alexander