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It’s all about snapping molecules together. – Johan Aqvist	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The engineering images that we saw today are as sharp and as crisp as the images that Hubble can take, but are at a wavelength of light that is totally invisible to humans, so this is making the invisible universe snapping into very, very sharp focus. – Jane Rigby	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We heard like the roots snapping or something and all of the sudden there was this huge roar as the tree just came down on the house, cut through it. – Cynthia Cristoforo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This magnetic field getting tied up and then snapping close to the black hole heats everything around it and produces these high energy electrons that then go on to produce the X-rays. – Dan Wilkins	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He gyrated in a VIP booth until 2 a.m., everybody was snapping photos of him until his security rushed him out the back door after he tipped a waitress $ 500. – Page Six	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When you consider that oil demand in China — the first country impacted by the virus — had fallen by more than 40% in February — the degree to which it is snapping back offers reason for some optimism about economic and demand recovery trends in other markets such as Europe and North America. – Jim Burkhard	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We encourage people to do business while they're there, not just show up and take a photo. We definitely want to uplift these local businesses, we think too that if they are going to make their place pretty Instagrammable, it's almost expected in this day and age to have people snapping photos in that space. – Rebecca Aneloski	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I saw all the mud coming down the hill, snapping the trees as it descended. It was a tremendous noise, i cannot get that noise out of my head. Its a trauma ... Ill never forget. – Simone Pedrosa	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's not just people snapping pictures at Dairy Queen. There's a lot going beyond the superficial. There's real business going on here, it would be more intense if everyone from China who wanted to come came. – Les Baquiran	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
When I first sink my teeth into it, there’s a lot of crunch, imagine snapping twigs, that’s what I heard in my head when I was biting. Twigs snapping, a lot of them. – Mark Christmann	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The market was massively oversold by the end of trading yesterday, so it's no surprise that we're seeing a snap back, we've seen a state of panic recently, and now that people are coming around to the view that things aren't really all that bad investors are snapping up these oversold low price to book stocks, which are roaring today. – Nicholas Smith	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It kind of clicked in my mind that it is a consistent position in that you're snapping the same distance for every snap, you definitely have the mechanics of what you're supposed to do, but a lot of it is just feel. – Jake Olson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa, half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me. – Leonardo DiCaprio	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The TV personality adds that many Hollywood stars are working to stop paparazzi from snapping pictures of celebs ’ children. I know that everyone is doing a lot … Halle Berry, Jennifer Garner, Angelina and Brad ; everyone is trying to do something about it, Halle Berry said. I don’t know when a change is going to happen as long as we’re a free country and people have freedom of speech, and can do what they want so-to-speak. I think we’re kind of open game. i ’m exposing them to everything in this world ; the good, the bad and the ugly and when they’re 18 I hope they don’t say, ‘ well, I did n’t know this side of things. I was never exposed to that. ’ We try to give them everything. – Vanessa Lachey	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Broken people cannot identify when their children are on the verge of snapping. – Kitty Bradshaw	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You can see them, smell them. When they roar the ground shakes. It's like lightning snapping over your head. – John Jackson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Iran is promised a total lifting of sanctions. That's UN, EU, United States, everywhere. We're not sure about the timing but it could be as early as June. And, that will supercharge the Iranian economy, will strengthen the regime, will give it tens of billions of dollars with which not only to build its nuclear facilities, but to use for the proxy wars around the Middle East, it is possible when they sign the agreement in June there will be a huge relief of sanctions, and when Obama speaks about snapping them back, if the Iranians are cheating, there is not a chance in the world that the Chinese or the Russians or even the Europeans are going to snap on sanctions again, we would be acting alone, we'd be completely isolated. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's exquisite, you have this strong, diagonal line made by the flag staff. You have the flag snapping in the breeze. You have the pyramid-like shape of the Marines pushing the flag up. The men obviously are separate, but they appear as one. The blank background enhances the action by providing no distractions. Also, the photo is gifted with a softly filtered light. A very thin haze of clouds filters the light so that the shadows aren't harsh, but there is detail in all the shadows on the uniforms and the flag. – Hal Buell	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Back when I was still on the soap, I became incredibly insecure and full of anxiety because I didn't know if I was any good. I spent years being angsty, constantly telling people I wasn't just part of a soap opera, that I was a real artist, and I remember Luke sort of snapping, telling me to shut up, that he was sick of hearing it. – Chris Hemsworth	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic. – Gore Vidal	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract. – Robin Green	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It’s all about snapping molecules together.

– Johan Aqvist

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The engineering images that we saw today are as sharp and as crisp as the images that Hubble can take, but are at a wavelength of light that is totally invisible to humans, so this is making the invisible universe snapping into very, very sharp focus.

– Jane Rigby

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We heard like the roots snapping or something and all of the sudden there was this huge roar as the tree just came down on the house, cut through it.

– Cynthia Cristoforo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This magnetic field getting tied up and then snapping close to the black hole heats everything around it and produces these high energy electrons that then go on to produce the X-rays.

– Dan Wilkins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He gyrated in a VIP booth until 2 a.m., everybody was snapping photos of him until his security rushed him out the back door after he tipped a waitress $ 500.

– Page Six

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When you consider that oil demand in China — the first country impacted by the virus — had fallen by more than 40% in February — the degree to which it is snapping back offers reason for some optimism about economic and demand recovery trends in other markets such as Europe and North America.

– Jim Burkhard

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We encourage people to do business while they're there, not just show up and take a photo. We definitely want to uplift these local businesses, we think too that if they are going to make their place pretty Instagrammable, it's almost expected in this day and age to have people snapping photos in that space.

– Rebecca Aneloski

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I saw all the mud coming down the hill, snapping the trees as it descended. It was a tremendous noise, i cannot get that noise out of my head. Its a trauma ... Ill never forget.

– Simone Pedrosa

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It's not just people snapping pictures at Dairy Queen. There's a lot going beyond the superficial. There's real business going on here, it would be more intense if everyone from China who wanted to come came.

– Les Baquiran

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When I first sink my teeth into it, there’s a lot of crunch, imagine snapping twigs, that’s what I heard in my head when I was biting. Twigs snapping, a lot of them.

– Mark Christmann

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The market was massively oversold by the end of trading yesterday, so it's no surprise that we're seeing a snap back, we've seen a state of panic recently, and now that people are coming around to the view that things aren't really all that bad investors are snapping up these oversold low price to book stocks, which are roaring today.

– Nicholas Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It kind of clicked in my mind that it is a consistent position in that you're snapping the same distance for every snap, you definitely have the mechanics of what you're supposed to do, but a lot of it is just feel.

– Jake Olson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa, half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.

– Leonardo DiCaprio

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The TV personality adds that many Hollywood stars are working to stop paparazzi from snapping pictures of celebs ’ children. I know that everyone is doing a lot … Halle Berry, Jennifer Garner, Angelina and Brad ; everyone is trying to do something about it, Halle Berry said. I don’t know when a change is going to happen as long as we’re a free country and people have freedom of speech, and can do what they want so-to-speak. I think we’re kind of open game. i ’m exposing them to everything in this world ; the good, the bad and the ugly and when they’re 18 I hope they don’t say, ‘ well, I did n’t know this side of things. I was never exposed to that. ’ We try to give them everything.

– Vanessa Lachey

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Broken people cannot identify when their children are on the verge of snapping.

– Kitty Bradshaw

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You can see them, smell them. When they roar the ground shakes. It's like lightning snapping over your head.

– John Jackson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Iran is promised a total lifting of sanctions. That's UN, EU, United States, everywhere. We're not sure about the timing but it could be as early as June. And, that will supercharge the Iranian economy, will strengthen the regime, will give it tens of billions of dollars with which not only to build its nuclear facilities, but to use for the proxy wars around the Middle East, it is possible when they sign the agreement in June there will be a huge relief of sanctions, and when Obama speaks about snapping them back, if the Iranians are cheating, there is not a chance in the world that the Chinese or the Russians or even the Europeans are going to snap on sanctions again, we would be acting alone, we'd be completely isolated.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's exquisite, you have this strong, diagonal line made by the flag staff. You have the flag snapping in the breeze. You have the pyramid-like shape of the Marines pushing the flag up. The men obviously are separate, but they appear as one. The blank background enhances the action by providing no distractions. Also, the photo is gifted with a softly filtered light. A very thin haze of clouds filters the light so that the shadows aren't harsh, but there is detail in all the shadows on the uniforms and the flag.

– Hal Buell

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Back when I was still on the soap, I became incredibly insecure and full of anxiety because I didn't know if I was any good. I spent years being angsty, constantly telling people I wasn't just part of a soap opera, that I was a real artist, and I remember Luke sort of snapping, telling me to shut up, that he was sick of hearing it.

– Chris Hemsworth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

– Gore Vidal

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.

– Robin Green

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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