Seymour Cray Quotes

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

Seymour Cray

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• Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Eat
  • Chickens
  • Fox

• Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Wanted
  • Fields
  • April

• Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • True
  • Simple
  • English

• If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Ifs
  • Fields
  • Default

• Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Positive

• While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Women
  • Dog
  • Horse

• It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • Baseball
  • Humor

• For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.

  

  Maurice Herzog
  • Mountain
  • Natural
  • Bread

• The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Memories
  • Speak
  • Fields

• The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Internet
  • Musician
  • Doors

• I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

  

  William Kamkwamba
  • Father
  • Accepting
  • Fields

• Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

  

  William Shatner
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Force

• Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fields
  • Towns
  • Goblin

• Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Eye

• Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

  

  John Milton
  • Happy
  • Fields
  • Farewell

• ...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.

  

  William Carey
  • Common
  • Fields
  • Missionary

• I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Accounts
  • Absurd
  • Chickens

• I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a horn or a siren or something. So it makes me very conscious of outside sounds, which in a way maybe led me to incorporate the field recordings.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Struggle
  • Cities
  • Conscious

• Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Person
  • Service
  • Fortunate

• I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.

  

  Zeena Parkins

• Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Punishment

• If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

  

  Seymour Cray
  • Fields
  • Chickens
  • Oxen