George Westinghouse Quotes
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
Quotes to Explore
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.
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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad - and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
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I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.
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I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.
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If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.
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I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
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A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
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If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
