Eli Whitney Quotes

I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.

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• In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Hate
  • Know

• Messengers of Peace such as Midori - and our Goodwill Ambassadors, who work directly with the UN agencies - are dedicated and well-informed and credible advocates on behalf of the United Nations. They help us educate audiences worldwide and rally support on key issues of the United Nations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Help
  • Peace

• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • You

• I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Reading
  • Lot
  • Shanghai

• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Action
  • Style
  • Eye

• I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Bad
  • Sorry

• I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • May
  • Like
  • First

• It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

  

  Pat Boone
  • True
  • Lifestyle
  • Liberal

• ...the Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Political

• What happened this far remote would have little political impact on Earth. What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Long
  • Political
  • Earth

• The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

  

  Aldous Huxley

• Through them his paintings I breathe again.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Breathe

• Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character actors - I've never wanted to be the leading guy.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Character
  • Guy

• Nothing is hanging on my walls.

  

  Alice Ripley

• I've struggled with depression in my life and sort of the way that the depression itself becomes an addiction.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Life
  • Depression
  • Addiction

• Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

  

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Book
  • Honor

• Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

  

  Franklin Knight Lane
  • Men

• Goa isn't just about tourism and happy faces.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Happy

• When questions of 'class' interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination.

  

  James Connolly
  • Hope
  • Lies
  • Victory

• The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

  

  Margaret Haddix

• The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

  

  Fred Barnes
  • Up
  • May
  • Truth

• I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are still magical to me.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Father
  • Moments
  • Irish

• Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Should
  • Lines
  • Ada

• I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.

  

  Eli Whitney