| nacre |  Nacre appears iridescent because the thickness of the aragonite platelets is close to the wavelength of visible light. |
| Nadia Boulanger | Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.
Nadia Boulanger |
| Nadia Comaneci | I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Nadia Comaneci |
| Nadia Comaneci | We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
Nadia Comaneci |
| Naguib Mahfouz | I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
Naguib Mahfouz |
| Naguib Mahfouz | I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
Naguib Mahfouz |
| Nanci Griffith | Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
Nanci Griffith |
| Nancy Astor | One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor |
| Nancy Friday | Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
Nancy Friday |
| Nancy Johnson | We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.
Nancy Johnson |
| Nancy Kerrigan | Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
Nancy Kerrigan |
| Nancy McKeon | Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
Nancy McKeon |
| Nancy Sinatra | I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
Nancy Sinatra |
| Nancy Sinatra | I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
Nancy Sinatra |
| Nancy Sinatra | The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.
Nancy Sinatra |
| nanosecond | A nanosecond is equal to 1000 picoseconds or 1/1000 microsecond. Because the next SI unit is 1000 times larger, times of 10-8 and 10-7 seconds are typically expressed as tens or hundreds of nanoseconds. |
| Naomi Campbell | I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
Naomi Campbell |
| Naomi Judd | When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
Naomi Judd |
| Naomi Klein | Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein |
| Naomi Klein | We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
Naomi Klein |
