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The music was human; the static was natural.

John Updike

The trouble is now we have given four goals away from static situations.

George Cohen

We often think of the warp as being static, but this simulation shows that it is very dynamic.

Leo Blitz

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.

Freya Stark

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

John Portman

If you touch the components inside the case, there is the danger of transferring static electricity to the motherboard, which could burn it out.

Gordon Mills

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John Fowles

[You feel it] up the back of your neck. It's like static electricity... on the cuffs of your flight suit... around your neck.

Jim Holmes

Walk around the office, avoid taking the lift or drop something on the floor and stretch to pick it up. The body loves movement, we are born to move and when you're static you feel terrible. Movement and flexibility are key.

Robert Clarke

We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited.

Henry Barton

They still think of the core as more of a static thing.

Scott Clavenna

To remain static is to lose ground.

David Packard

To me, this is part of the ongoing propaganda static that (an investor) has to become accustomed to when dealing with Wal-Mart.

Bernard Sosnick

The best way to strengthen back muscles is in a static position, You maintain the position of the core while moving other parts of the body.

Verle Valentine

It is a static display and I think the younger generation wants flash images and a lot of things happening in 30 seconds.

Rodney Fong

Dynamic optimization gives us an entirely new way of managing network traffic. Traditionally, communications networks are designed around a static scenario based on peak usage patterns. But of course traffic patterns are always changing. In the evenings the majority of mobile device use is at the home, during the day it is in the office area, and during rush hours along the major traffic arteries.

Mike Flanagan

Software is not static -- it is constantly changing. You can't just measure the executable; you need to measure the vendor.

Herbert Thompson

The industry started out with an authoritarian kind of command-and-control model. And the structure was static and rigid.

Douglas Norby

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

Stephen Bayley

Revenue is static, expenditures are going up and you have a very substantial fiscal problem.

Harry Miller

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

Neal Stephenson

People will learn about electricity but also get to explore static electricity.

Carolyn R. Rebbert

We're seeing more of these [errors]. We have more planes flying in a static amount of airspace trying to get into airports.

Michael Moody

We could have spent thousands on corporate art and filled our walls with something that would be wonderful to look at, but it would be static. Our company is based on people and change and adaptability. What better than to have our very walls represent what we're about?

Janet Reid

Traditional high frequency circuit designs have relied on deep pipelines and/or aggressive dynamic circuits. New low-latency static circuit fixed-point (FXU) and binary floating point (BFU) units naturally achieve high frequency without resorting to super deep pipelines or power-hungry circuits.

Brian Curran

A company with a static supply chain strategy will not be successful in the future.

Bill Read

The world is filled with puzzles, all kinds of interesting questions and it's our challenge to figure them out. It's not just like this static file cabinet of things that human beings know. It's ever expanding.

Neil Shubin

There's no doubt the composition of the court remained static for about 10 years. Justices Kennedy and O'Connor were together perhaps a swing vote. So it is inaccurate to say that O'Connor was the swing vote.

Andrew Mcbride

In normal times, it would come for a day or two, then move out. For a number of reasons, globally this winter, the pattern has remained static, and this low-pressure system is not moving out.

Nezette Rydell

This is an ongoing process. The guidelines are not static.

Dan Grunig

For us at Northeastern, we haven't been in a static environment. The incoming classes have changed in academic ability.

Malcolm Hill

Some things are static. A 2-liter drink has been a buck or $1.19 for years.

John Garber

In an environment where mine supply is broadly static, central bank sales effectively constrained and scrap supply declining, strong physical demand is genuinely important.

John Reade

Instead of just having a static exhibit, why not just put it all over downtown and get people down here?

Stephanie Johnson

While nitrogen dioxide vertical column concentrations above central and eastern Europe and parts of the East Coast of the United States have been either static or exhibiting a small decrease, there is a clear and significant increase over China.

John Burrows

What we see from our state university system is no growth. It has remained static over time.

Cheri Yecke

Taiwan's labor market is healthy and static. The unemployment rate is expected to remain around this level for the remainder of this year.

Renee Chen

Imagine if your hair was to stand up from static electricity, that's kind of what the corona looks like all around the sun.

Alex Young

The important thing is to not be static. We want to actively grow the collection.

Chris Reid

If you look at the fragrance market, the category has been fairly static in terms of growth. It hasn't grown enormously over the last few years.

Paul Austin

I think we're doing a moderate job and relying a little too much on databases historically being deeper within the enterprise. Some examples of really bad practices are static passwords stored in clear text in applications and batch jobs, shared administrative accounts, no controls on DBA activity, etc. We can definitely be doing better.

Rich Mogull

With things of a human origin, it's harder to objectively figure out the probabilities. To the best of my knowledge, people are not doing credible analysis on the risks facing this country, and if they were, who's to know that those are static probabilities?

Baruch Fischhoff

The security companies and hackers play a continued game of cat and mouse. The security companies set up the trap, and the hackers disengage it. That's why it's important to own shares of these companies. The demand will never be static. Companies will continue to buy new products and invest in security platforms.

Jordan Klein

In-flight collision with an unmarked static power line.

James Farmer

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

William Hull

We have 17 export facilities along the Mississippi river, with 10 million tons daily capacity and 55 million bushels static capacity.

Ken Erickson

Software is an evolving product. It's not static.

Gary Knight

This gives us a lot of insights we wouldn't be able to make using static images.

Cynthia Moss

Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in reality: The goal is achieved, but the person who reaches it is not the same person who dreamed it. The goal was static, but the person's identity was dynamic.

Phillip Moffitt

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.

Senator Everett Dirksen

Static in my head,the reflected sound of everything,tried to go to where it led,but it didn't lead to anything.

Elliott Smith