Isambard K. Brunel Quotes

I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.

Isambard K. Brunel

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• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
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• The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
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• When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
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• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  

  Hank Aaron
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• I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

  

  K. D. Lang
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• Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
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• When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Fate
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• I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

  

  Fisher Stevens
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• We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
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• I'm not surprised about the lack of women on boardrooms. They were only emancipated 200 years ago, and historically, men have dominated. I welcome women as long as they qualify for the job.

  

  David Tang
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• 'To the Bone' is autobiographical. It's written and directed by a woman; it's starring all women, apart from me and Keanu, who are in lesser parts, and it's produced by women.

  

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• You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.

  

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• I have a daughter and a family.

  

  Kim Clijsters
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• During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually - and among them many African-American - migrated to the Hampton Roads area because of the job boom that was happening. It was a place where you could get stable war jobs.

  

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• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
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• I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

  

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• I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.

  

  Joe Johnston
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• Environmentalists aren't nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that the fishermen are the people with the most immediate vested interest in having a healthy sea.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • People
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• I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.

  

  Isambard K. Brunel
  • Engineering
  • Build
  • Station