Oliver Evans Quotes

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

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• I want to continue to be me and share with people.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Car
  • Waiting

• For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Me
  • Greatest
  • Tell

• We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Boring
  • Explained
  • Unexplainable

• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Up
  • American
  • Political

• I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Kids
  • Black

• If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Day

• I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Find
  • Tough
  • Atmosphere

• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Family
  • Problems

• A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Never
  • Big
  • Winner

• It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Human
  • Afraid
  • Racism

• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Together
  • Happy

• I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Life

• As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Humble
  • Hell
  • Page

• Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Small
  • Worst
  • Getting

• I love technology, and man, is it helpful. But it also means you're always on. Always findable. Always available to 'just take five minutes' to answer an email, tweet a link for someone, check in quickly on FourSquare.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Helpful

• Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Hate
  • Creative

• Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • People
  • Reason
  • Sometimes

• It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • Think
  • Right
  • Communication