James Dyson Quotes

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

James Dyson

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• I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Working
  • Out
  • Incapable

• Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Rights
  • Means
  • Homosexuality

• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Read
  • Paper

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Thought

• You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Trying
  • Money
  • You

• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Hate
  • Same
  • Sound

• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Energy
  • Players

• When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Back
  • Hit
  • Attacked

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Never
  • Finish

• I don't ever want to feel complacent.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Complacent

• I would like to be a polyglot.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Like
  • Would

• I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Honest

• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Red
  • Awkward

• I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Song
  • Ideas

• Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Music
  • God
  • Science

• I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Conflict
  • Interested
  • Crisis

• We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Hope

• Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

  

  James Dyson
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Design