Charles Babbage Quotes
The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines... The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.Charles Babbage
Quotes to Explore
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
Uwe Boll -
The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
Pankaj Mishra -
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
Parker Palmer -
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
Rafael Correa -
I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
Harold Pinter
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
Ian Schrager -
If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
Pat Buchanan -
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis -
I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
Jackie DeShannon -
The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'
Eddie Trunk -
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
Nathan Fillion -
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
Igor Stravinsky -
I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
Hamish Linklater -
I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
Yul Brynner -
Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
Salma Hayek
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
Abba Eban -
I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.
Lynsey Addario -
I think I'm the most private out of my family.
Kendall Jenner -
The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs -
Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines... The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.
Charles Babbage