H. G. Wells Quotes
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.H. G. Wells
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson -
With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
Madison Marlow -
When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
Hans Rosling -
I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
Larry Brown -
If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
Ted Cruz
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
Venus Williams -
You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
Pablo Sandoval -
I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
Zoe Saldana -
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron -
The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
Yaya Toure
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I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
Edith Widder -
I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
Nastassja Kinski -
It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.
Tamron Hall -
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx -
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Walter Benjamin -
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.
Patrisse Cullors -
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Arthur Helps -
The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.
David E. Sanger -
I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.
Zephyr Teachout -
I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
Kiefer Sutherland -
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. Wells