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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here. -- Robert Anton Wilson
I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up! -- Scott Bakula
Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it. -- William Shatner
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. -- William Law
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. -- Lord Byron
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend. -- David Trimble
A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move. -- Johannes Stark
We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them. -- Johannes Stark
I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would! -- Bruce Dickinson
The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before. -- Dave Eggers
All Thing Serve the Beam -- Stephen King
Jake 'The Snake's' two best friends are Jim Beam & Jack Daniels. -- Jerry Lawler
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life -- Agnes Martin
The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are. -- Conrad Hall
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do. -- Shannon Miller
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. -- Saint Augustine
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? -- Luke the Evangelist
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. -- Friedrich Schiller
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. -- John Locke
.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. -- James Traficant
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today. -- Abraham Cowley
Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually. -- Robert Patterson
Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all. -- Stephen Colbert
I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, "This is Beam Me Up." Then to my right. "And this is Scotty." Garret chuckled and buried his face in his hands. He asked. -- Darynda Jones
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. -- Washington Irving
Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things. -- John Jewel
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things. -- Robert Southey
Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked. -- William Shatner
You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the park and have some fun.' Then you get them to do some running, play on the swings, practice on the balance beam, basically get a full workout disguised as play. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life. -- Agnes Martin
On the balance beam, sometimes it's really hard to stay on if you're having some rough times. -- Liang Chow
I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars. -- Nastia Liukin
I love to travel but hate traffic and planes. I wish I could just beam myself anywhere instantly. -- Jordan Ladd
I'd challenge myself to see how long I could go without a fall - on beam, I once went three weeks. -- Dominique Moceanu
You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you! -- Alex Trebek
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. -- Lyman Abbott
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels. -- Jack McDevitt
Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan. -- Jennifer Carpenter
I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.' -- Shawn Johnson
If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut. -- Ali MacGraw
It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam. -- David Chipperfield
I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light. -- Michael Servetus
Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God. -- Lynda Barry
Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to 0.8 gigabytes of information, or about what you can fit on a CD. With a microwave radio transmitter, you could beam that amount of information into space in a few minutes, and have it travel to anyone at light speed. -- Seth Shostak
A beam in darkness: let it grow. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love radiates the full beam of light. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Step not beyond the beam of the balance. -- Pythagoras
Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. -- Alexander Pope
Faith is a beam radiating from the face of God. -- John Eudes
I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam. -- Ecaterina Szabo
My friend, God wants to throw a beam of light on your path today. -- Joseph Prince
Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars -- Nadia Comaneci
Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man. -- Sappho
Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio -- David Foster
Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center -- Morihei Ueshiba
Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn. -- James Gates Percival
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. -- Annie Dillard
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles -- Du Fu
Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze. -- George Iles
O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The truth can set you free, but when it comes, it's more like a wrecking-ball than a holy beam of illumination. -- Bryant McGill
When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those. -- Nick Offerman
Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I was taught that we should look after the beam in our own eye before searching for the mote in someone else's. -- George W. Bush
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others. -- Bill Crawford
There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness. -- Milan Kundera
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point. -- George Eliot
Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire. -- Napoleon Hill
When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love. -- Charles Lamb
Nothing is going to change. I'm going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well stop talking about it. -- Gabby Douglas
Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks. -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam? -- Eric Maisel
A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing. -- Allen Lacy
God's word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we'll never make it through. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren. -- Martin Luther
I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it! -- Vanessa Ferrari
You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently. -- Carlos Santana
In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam - it is very powerful and healing can happen. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars. -- John Steinbeck
Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness. -- Thomas Carlyle
Give your thanks to the needle that stuck in your finger, to wooden beam that you hit your head, to bee that stung you on your hand, because they taught you something! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth. -- William Cowper
To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote. -- George MacDonald
If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory. -- Henry Ward Beecher
But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. -- Lord Byron
The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected. -- Francis Bacon

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