James Nasmyth Quotes

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

James Nasmyth

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• People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Financial
  • Divorce

• I can't play a character that I am judging.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Character
  • Play
  • Judging

• Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Television

• The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Green

• It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Door
  • Walking
  • Clothes

• Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Live
  • Health
  • Wellbeing

• The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • American
  • Community

• I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • English
  • Back
  • Wing

• I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?' and they'll be like, 'Yeah, now let me read it.'

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Good
  • Book
  • Reading

• Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Bid us sigh on from day to day,And wish and wish the soul away,Till youth and genial years are flown,And all the life of life is gone.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Wish

• To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Breakfast

• Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie.It's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see.'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down.Now I don't know what to be without you around.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Sad

• I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Good
  • Why
  • Remember

• Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

  

  Alex Haley
  • Reality

• Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash

• My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle.

  

  Paula Yates
  • People
  • World
  • Mother

• In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Sun
  • Foreign oil
  • Efficient energy

• There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.

  

  Nik Kershaw
  • Hair
  • Decide
  • Grow Old

• In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

  

  James Nasmyth