R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
Quotes to Explore
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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Where there is love there is life.
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The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
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To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.
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I am starting to get into this whole idea of caring about what I wear. There was a time in my life when I could not care less about fashion.
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Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
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I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
