Newton D. Baker Quotes

To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes.

Newton D. Baker

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• Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • God
  • Want
  • Badly

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Need

• I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Pretty
  • Years
  • Before

• Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Find
  • Information
  • Snake

• According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Work
  • Truth

• Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • May
  • Power
  • Science

• Nay, if there's room for poets in the worldA little overgrown, (I think there is)Their sole work is to represent the age,Their age, not Charlemagne's, - this live, throbbing age,That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,And spends more passion, more heroic heat,Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Work
  • Live
  • Age

• The next thing which surprised us very much, is that both for Julia sets and even more so for the Mandelbrot set, the complication was not, how to say, arbitrary, and almost everybody found the impression that these shapes were hauntingly beautiful. These shapes resulted from the most ridiculous transformation, z

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Beautiful
  • Transformation

• Remember we're all in this alone.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Remember
  • Alone

• It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.

  

  Brady Corbet

• I'm a pretty big Ricky Gervais fan.

  

  Craig Roberts
  • Pretty

• In London, there is no need for 25 high-end gastronomic restaurants. That would be too much.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • High

• There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

  

  Jenna Dewan
  • Women
  • Baby

• I make sure that I'm not focused on other things when I'm spending time with my children.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Time
  • Children

• I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.

  

  Gbenga Akinnagbe
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Money

• Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Women
  • City
  • Comedy

• The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Life
  • Exercises
  • Educates

• I was shocked at the anger toward me.

  

  Bernadine Dohrn

• I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Deep

• My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Movies
  • Show
  • Prisons

• To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes.

  

  Newton D. Baker
  • Bridge
  • Damage
  • Airplanes