Gilkes Turbines Quotes & Sayings

He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't know who it was but it was crap. He played it on the team bus too, and all the boys hated it. Until one night it got chucked away. If he's still wondering who threw that tape off the bus, it was me. So maybe he was right and I'm not to be trusted ... — Gordon Strachan

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours. — Christiaan Huygens

Extraordinary effervescence exists within you, waiting to be tapped. — Amy Leigh Mercree

How then, she had asked herself, did one know one thing or another thing about people, sealed as they were? Only like a bee, drawn by some sweetness or sharpness in the air intangible to touch or taste, one haunted the dome-shaped hive, ranged the wastes of the air over the countries of the world alone, and then haunted the hives with their murmurs and their stirrings; the hives which were people. — Virginia Woolf

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like. — Woodrow Wilson

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you. — Isiah Thomas

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, I read, therefore it writes. — Italo Calvino

Only a mediocre man is always at his best, — Neil Peart

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world. — Lara Fabian

In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism. — John Kenneth Galbraith

If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God. — Peter Kreeft

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work. — Helen Oyeyemi

Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate. — Christopher Hitchens