Illingworth Engineering Quotes & Sayings

Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck. — Jeffery Russell

Soon there would be a final morning, a final afternoon, a final sunrise. She measured her life by these thoughts and then reprimanded herself for not simply enjoying such pleasures while she still could. — Alastair Reynolds

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. — Arthur Henderson

There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress. — Elizabeth McCracken

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena. — Jon Stewart

Our future is our sense of common destiny. — Ahmet Davutoglu

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel. — Jane Green

Healing in America is being able to call it our home, to build a future for our children, to still believe in tough times, to remember our forefathers, and stepping forward together towards a common solution — Phil Mitchell

I groan as I lose all my ability to hold back, and I lower my head while pushing her dress and bra down in unison to allow way for my mouth to close over the hard little nub. — C.M. Owens

ACTIONS ARE THE TRUEST MEASURE of intent. — Cathleen Benko

Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world. — Christopher Bram

There are no wrong roads to anywhere. — Norton Juster

A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other. — Mary Jo Putney

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events. — Bob Feller

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain. — Ray Davies