Biegeleisen Books Quotes & Sayings

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research. — Willis R. Whitney

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people. — Richard Avedon

Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. — Christina Rossetti

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

History will treat me right. — Ralph Abernathy

Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears. — Homer

No sense in a man with writer's block going to New York. — Kurt Vonnegut

"Old" is definitely not cool in America. Never has been. — Tom Peters

Because I wanna make sure you don't belong to anyone else before we move forward. — K. Langston

You can respect a person without necessarily liking that individual. — John Wooden

You are old, Father William,' the young man said,
'And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?'
'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son,
'I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again. — Lewis Carroll

Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us. — V.C. Andrews

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door. — Guy Fieri