Nevil Shute Quotes

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

Nevil Shute

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• Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Mathematics
  • Intuition

• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Live
  • Law

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Change

• Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Ocean

• 'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Stars
  • Awesome
  • Dancing

• I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Sleep

• There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Country
  • Alone

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • Words
  • You

• My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Talent
  • Taught

• I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Personality

• I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Time
  • Think
  • Singing

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Play
  • Looking

• I learn my songs by ear.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Learn
  • Songs
  • Ear

• My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

  

  Princess Margaret
  • Children
  • Aunt

• The Second Amendment is very important, but we have to have commonsense gun safety.

  

  Deborah K. Ross
  • Important
  • Gun
  • Safety

• I have a little easier time watching the NFL than college or high school. I used to go to the high school games, and now I have trouble with it. The NFL players get big rewards from it. I feel at least the NFL has made big changes to help their safety. And they're adults - they can make good decisions.

  

  Ann McKee
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

  

  Jennifer Damiano

• I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Work

• Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

  

  Nevil Shute
  • Service
  • Safety