Engert Mechanical Knoxville Quotes & Sayings

Talia: I was brought up to respect older people and peasants ... not that you're ...
Jack: (clears throat) Quit while you're ahead
Meryl: Ahead? She just called mom and old peasant. — Alex Flinn

We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. — Adolf Galland

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine. — Nathan Myhrvold

Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event. — William Lane Craig

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment. — Paul McCartney

Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth. — Jose N. Harris

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with. — Johnny Vegas

I swear, I'm gonna have to lock you up. I'd chain you to my bed, except I'm seldom in it. — Karen Harper

Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible. — Philippe Petit

I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely. — Priyanka Chopra

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won. — Norman Mailer

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap. — Steve Jobs

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history. — Philip Berrigan

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view. — Bing Gordon