R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

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• Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Fear
  • Excited
  • Maybe

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• The patient decides when it's best to go.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Best
  • Medical
  • Patient

• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • First
  • Special
  • Bar

• I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Giving
  • Worry
  • Coffee

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Words
  • Wind
  • Communication

• At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Time
  • Art
  • Logic

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Know
  • Just
  • Wedding

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Real
  • Father
  • Career

• In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Hope
  • New
  • Drug

• Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • Food
  • Quality

• I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Happy
  • Fun

• Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Me
  • Rock

• This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Me
  • Person
  • Hell

• As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• If something just plain didn’t make sense to Alvin, he didn’t believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Bible

• It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Important
  • Job

• Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example.

  

  John Battelle
  • People
  • Space
  • Fly

• In that accident, we not only lost seven colleagues, we lost seven friends, ... They believed in space exploration. They knew the risks, but they believed in what they were doing. They showed us that the fire of the human spirit is insatiable.

  

  Charles Camarda
  • Friends
  • Lost
  • Space

• Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Space