Percy L. Spencer Quotes & Sayings

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers ... — Gabriel Marcel

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' ... there is no end to it. — Barry Unsworth

I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith. — Julianne Hough

All beginnings are involuntary. — Fernando Pessoa

Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind. — Scott Barry Kaufman

Darwin Award. That's not a real award, it's a joke. They give them to people who die doing something so stupid that it counts as a service to humanity. — Gregg Dunnett

Of course I recognized it. How could I not, for I had read it goodness knows how many times. 'Jane Eyre,' I said wonderingly.
'You recognized it? Yes, it is. I asked a man in a library. It's by Charlotte someone. She had a lot of sisters, apparently. — Diane Setterfield

My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets. — Keri Hilson

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it. — Paul Robeson

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming
that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. — Albert Camus

Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA. — Jack Valenti

Travel causes some affliction of the eye, and after a while no place it rests looks like home. — Sean Russell

When you're doing comedy on stage, it's great because you have the audience there and they're like another actor in the scene. You feed off of them, laugh. But in film when everyone's quiet, it's all about timing. But the key to that is to be authentic. Be in the moment, and if you play the moment truthfully, the humor will be there. — Wendell Pierce

There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America. — Rafael Correa

If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The reason alcoholism no longer sounds silly to you is because you're used to hearing it, reading it, and thinking about it. — Chris Prentiss