Charles Kettering Quotes

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Charles Kettering

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• For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Nervous

• Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Artist

• I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Catholic
  • Beatnik

• Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Short

• My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Favorite
  • Go

• What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • People
  • Great
  • Doing

• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Crime
  • Fault
  • Indifference

• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Age
  • Community
  • Moral

• That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Changes
  • Ego
  • Self

• I don't claim any great experience or expertise.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Expertise

• It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Character
  • Magic
  • First

• The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Novel
  • Seduction
  • Seduced

• As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Want
  • Actor

• Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Up
  • Done
  • Together

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Things
  • Everything
  • Evolve

• Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I don't feel like I work. I just do it because I love it and I get paid to do it. I just think: 'What an easy way to earn a living.'

  

  Laura Trott
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Love
  • Lucky
  • Egypt

• I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

  

  Philip Glass
  • World
  • Great
  • America

• At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • May
  • Beautiful

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Joy

• Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

  

  Charles Kettering