Ada Lovelace Quotes
I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.Ada Lovelace
Quotes to Explore
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
Tara Reid -
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler -
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary -
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid -
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham -
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I'm totally comfortable with myself.
Vanity -
I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
Taylor Dayne -
It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
Harry Caray -
Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
Yao Ming -
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
Vince Carter
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
Jack Reynor -
I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
C. Thomas Howell -
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
Nancy Gibbs -
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
Hamilton Jordan -
From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
Ian Lustick -
I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
Paige VanZant
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During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.
Jim Pattison -
There is a situation where pro-democracy demonstrations have been met with suppression and excessive use of force which has further aggravated the situation and undermines the process of healing and reconciliation which is the only way to resolve the current impasse.
Anand Sharma -
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
David Brainerd -
Even Ricardo's most famous accomplishment, the law of comparative advantage in foreign trade, is incomplete, though not wrong.
Kenneth Arrow -
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.
Mark Z. Danielewski -
I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.
Ada Lovelace