Sir Bernard Lovell Quotes & Sayings

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy

I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles. — Bradford Winters

I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that. — Sam Yagan

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men. — William H. Macy

New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left. — John Updike

I think corporations should give more attention to this suffering and should wait to invest until there is a responsible government in Burma. I do not think it is a good idea to separate economics from politics; in fact, I do not think economics can be separated from politics It's quite understandable that many business concerns think only about their own profits It's up to the public to put as much pressure as it can on these companies, through shareholder resolutions and public actions. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Whoe'er excels in what we prize,
Appears a hero in our eyes;
Each girl, when pleased with what is taught,
Will have the teacher in her thought.
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A blockhead with melodious voice,
In boarding-schools may have his choice. — Jonathan Swift

There was something about playing with the same building blocks that invited encore after encore. What was that something? My guess is that it was the fact that we were interacting with other human beings, not with machines. We were tapping into infinite richness of human sense and emotions, challenging our imagination and human competitiveness, rather than the staccato rhythms and predictable rewards of programmed games. — Ralph Nader

There is no virtue higher than non-injury. — Swami Vivekananda

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency. — Robert Scheer