Erector Quotes & Sayings

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. — James Van Allen

It's life. Everyone is destined for the same ending. Why are you going to hold a grudge at the timing? — Holly Hood

My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for. — Edie Campbell

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. — Steven Chu

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them. — Brigham Young

A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman. — Mary Roach

In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal "girders" and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end. — Steven Chu

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ... — Susanne Katherina Langer

Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be? — Penny Matthews

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect. — Ray Kurzweil

There are gifts and talents that have not yet been used and power which has not been applied — Sunday Adelaja

I'll miss you forever.'
Blake - Devil To Pay — Jeaniene Frost

I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity. — Robin Morgan

This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people. — Christian Cooke

It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene. It gives an account of a young woman engaged to be married, and while under this engagement, she is, to speak plain language, debauched by a ghost. — Thomas Paine