Daniel Kleppner Quotes

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

Daniel Kleppner

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• And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

  

  Little Richard
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Like

• Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Band
  • Sometimes
  • Singing

• Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Words
  • Magic
  • Terrible

• It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.

  

  J. Edwin Orr
  • Work
  • College
  • Beginning

• You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • She

• The main thing is, believe in yourself. Reach out and go after it.

  

  Joanna Garcia
  • Believe

• I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Deserve
  • Fails
  • Blamed

• Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Problems
  • Values
  • Contain

• Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Death
  • Giving

• If you can't send money, send tobacco.

  

  George Washington
  • Money
  • Tobacco

• Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Man
  • Woman

• All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In short, the Gospels help archaeologists know where to dig and they help archaeologists understand what they unearth. The 2nd-century Gospels and Gospel-like writings rarely exhibit verisimilitude, so archaeologists rarely appeal to them.

  

  Craig A. Evans
  • Writing
  • Helping
  • Palestine

• Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Sea
  • Mountain
  • Roaring

• We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and other technologies, and of course it brings more pollution to our air, to nature. And I think the idea of the Kraftwerk song is people should not be very much mechanized or to be a machine in the world of machines. The idea is to try to find a golden middle between the world of nature and the world of machines.

  

  Albert Kuvezin
  • Nature
  • Machines
  • Pollution

• Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.

  

  Clarence John Laughlin
  • Imagination
  • Chance
  • Acting

• You obsess (but of course you obsess) until the joy is gone from that thing you'd loved, until your fury overwhelms your passion, until you no longer know how to sit with your back against a tree and write poetry that no one will ever see.

  

  Beth Kephart
  • Passion
  • Poetry
  • Obsess

• Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

  

  Daniel Kleppner
  • Machines
  • Cathedrals