Charles Kettering Quotes
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Europe can be saved.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
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In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.
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With our dramas, we have a lot of shows that feature very well-to-do, well-educated people who are driving very nice cars and living in extremely nice places.
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My son has died of AIDS.
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The living always get over the dead. That’s what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back, they’d only have been sore that somehow you managed to get over their dying at all.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
