Erector Set Quotes & Sayings

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

When a film's heroine innocently coughs, you know that two scenes later, at most, she'll be in an oxygen tent; when a man bumps into a woman at the train station, you know that man will become the woman's lover and/or murderer. In everyday life, where we cough often and are always bumping into people, our daily actions rarely reverberate so lucidly. Once we love or hate someone, we can think back and remember that first casual encounter. But what of all the chance meetings that nothing ever comes of? While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark. — Lucy Grealy

Never let the state of waiting be in your mind.
Just do something else and do it by intention. — Toba Beta

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. — Tom Hooper

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

One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time. — Woody Allen

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied. — Saint Augustine

Is it any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality and charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments? — Thomas Merton

I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead man walking' but 'dead men' cannot have 'nightmares'. — Wladimir Klitschko

If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally. — Phil Crane

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour. — David Bailey

The best part of working with Facebook has been the cross-fertilization of ideas, people, and technology. — Brian Acton

I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at the end of the sixth day than I was at the end of the second. Yet I know, as you know, people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food. — Dale Carnegie

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance. — Richard Masur

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

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification ... It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there. — Isaac Asimov

You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father. — Deirdre O'Kane

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

The more we learn and stretch our comfort zone, the better our ability will be. — Kishore Bansal