Fanthorpe Engineer Quotes & Sayings

When you can't win the fight, you get bigger guns."

- Episode 14, "Better Space Than Never — Ashley Poston

It takes more energy to find the words to describe poems than almost anything I can think of, except of course for trying to find the damn words to write one. — Robert Newman

I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place. — Winston S. Churchill

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I have often misunderstood men grossly, and I have misrepresented them when I understood them, sacrificing sense to make a phrase. Here, of course, is where even the most conscientious critic often goes aground; he is apt to be an artist before he is a scientist, and the impulse to create something passionately is stronger in him than the impulse to state something accurately. — H.L. Mencken

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people. — Frederick The Great

If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost. — Dalai Lama

We embrace two-legged beings, and can warm to four-legged beings, too, but for most people, six legs is pushing it. Most don't need multi-eyed, antennaed face time. — Diane Ackerman

If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding. — Ernest K. Gann

I always feel it is worse for me to allow my fears to stop me from doing what I want to do then to do it and fail. — Pat Toth-Smith