William Scranton Quotes

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

William Scranton

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• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Pressure
  • Loss
  • Suits

• When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • End
  • Tests
  • Nuclear Weapons

• Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Audience

• Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Drama
  • Student
  • Suits

• The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Tests
  • Laboratory

• That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Man
  • Brave
  • Coward

• Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Patient
  • Tests

• When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Time
  • Day
  • Learning

• I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Want
  • Appreciate
  • Suits

• Sir Rosevelt is a little more of a persona, and we dress up, three-piece Tom Ford suits, and it's a little more refined, visually.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • More
  • Dress

• Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Acting
  • Suits
  • Perfectly

• No righteous rules, however rigid, are too stringent for me; I will live above them.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Live

• Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal formal and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done
  • Stop
  • Present

• If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.

  

  Phil Ramone
  • Done

• Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

  

  Al Goldstein

• No matter what race or color you are, you can aspire to do something great.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Great
  • Color

• Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

  

  William Warburton
  • Truth
  • Reason
  • Tests

• Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Free
  • Suffering

• Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far too low-cut." Ginny glanced round, grinning, winked at Harry, then quickly faced the front again.

  

  Joanne Rowling

• When you are young in this industry, it's difficult to know when to speak up.

  

  Sigrid
  • Speak
  • Young
  • Industry

• My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

  

  William Scranton
  • Tests
  • Suits