Nevil Shute Quotes

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes — not yet, anyhow.

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• Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • City
  • Always
  • Early

• No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • May
  • Man

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • War
  • Fight
  • New

• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Wife
  • Ideas
  • Nothing

• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Important
  • Moral

• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Great
  • Hands

• There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Good
  • Learning

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Future
  • Death
  • Past

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Single

• Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

  

  Francis Quarles
  • Impossible
  • Fortune
  • Fearless

• My mother Earth!And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains,Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye.And thou, the bright eye of the universe,That openest over all, and unto allArt a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Mother

• Nutrition makes me puke.

  

  Jimmy Piersall

• The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I'd just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling 'new dwarf - car' on the stub.

  

  John Niven
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Car

• I'm too young to play lawyers. But I've been really lucky because I never got labeled. I never did the John Hughes thing. I did adult movies. I'm not bragging or anything, but I think that I've chosen really good roles. I've played different people and showed that I have a little bit of range.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Play
  • Thing
  • Lawyers

• Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes — not yet, anyhow.

  

  Nevil Shute
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