Lois McMaster Quotes

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

Lois McMaster

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• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Small
  • Moon
  • Faces

• I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Great
  • Live
  • Listening

• If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Why
  • Want
  • Loudest

• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Common
  • Two
  • Common Sense

• Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • World
  • Art
  • Stealing

• The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'

  

  Yaya Toure
  • World
  • Good
  • Family

• I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Believe
  • Light
  • Ocean

• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Communist
  • Horizon

• One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Character
  • Story

• Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Long
  • May

• If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Why
  • Know

• I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • People
  • Anger
  • Rage

• We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Up
  • Hurt
  • Sad

• I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Important
  • Women
  • True

• 'To the Bone' is autobiographical. It's written and directed by a woman; it's starring all women, apart from me and Keanu, who are in lesser parts, and it's produced by women.

  

  Alex Sharp
  • Women

• I have a daughter and a family.

  

  Kim Clijsters
  • Family
  • Daughter

• And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

  

  Daniel J. Evans
  • Training
  • Engineering

• I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• If you think about it, many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labor. Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil.

  

  David Autor
  • Great
  • Power

• Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Long
  • Live
  • Real

• Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Blood
  • Cry

• All writers have their own pet commandments.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Pet

• It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Term
  • Engineering
  • Ancient