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

• 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

• 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 will offer a prayer to the Trinity, May the Eternal grant me to praise thee! In the present course, dangerous Our work; destruction is a slight impulse of wrath. They reckon of the saints a tribe, King of heaven, may I be eloquent about thee! Before the separation of my soul from my flesh.

  

  Taliesin
  • Work
  • May
  • Soul

• So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.

  

  Ogden Nash

• Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Future
  • Today

• I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Nature
  • Humanity
  • Drug

• Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Need
  • Desires
  • Diet

• The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll try to bring the audience a good distance before that. Part of that is allowing comic moments to occur. I had been afraid of that - that once the audience started laughing in the play, they would never stop.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Stop

• The butterflies will be jangling.

  

  Gabrielle Nicole "Gabby" Logan
  • Butterfly

• Can you imagine what that little conversation is going to look like, held in the independent counsel's office, with the people there who have the capacity to put Ms. Lewinsky in jail? ... Can we really say that it's just normal, just OK, to have one side using the might and majesty of the independent counsel's office threatening a witness with violation of an immunity agreement if she doesn't fly across the country for this little chat? I think not.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • People
  • Country
  • She

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

  

  Charles Kettering