Inelegant As An Engineering Quotes & Sayings

Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia. — Tadashi Yanai

So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money. — Richard Branson

Seize the moments you're given, otherwise the world will eat you up and spit you out. — A Meredith Walters

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas. — Dan Stevens

In most of America, it seems you don't matter if you're not between 25 and 50. — Winona LaDuke

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence. — Marcel Proust

Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders. — Richard Preston

The old man's fave gleamed, memory-bound. Eddie did not glimpse the young man who had been (Gran-pere was too old for that), but in his rheumy eyes he saw the mixture of excitement and determination and sick fear which must have filled him that day. Must have filled them all. Eddie felt himself reaching out for it the way a hungry man will reach for food, and the old man must have seen some of this on his face, for he seemed to swell and gain vigor. Certainly this wasn't a reaction the old man had ever gotten from his grandson; Tian did not lack for bravery, say thankya, but he was a sodbuster for all that. This man, however, this Eddie of New York... he might live a short life and die with his face in the dirt, but he was no sodbuster. — Stephen King

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. — Guy Debord

The real stars don't even fascinate me as much as they used to when I was ... younger."
"I'm sorry for that, as well. — Diana Peterfreund

For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous. — Sanya Richards-Ross

be like a bee and put your life into the sting! — Joshua Heights

This is what evolution means
ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater
progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life. — Lyman Abbott