Van Vleck Quotes & Sayings

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower. — Katharine Hepburn

You learn something every day, unless you're careful. — Tom Van Vleck

Trouble. I felt my muscles tense with anticipation and anxiety. Sought understanding. — Diane Capri

The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so. — Dr. Seuss

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'. — Winona Ryder

I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'" — Tom Van Vleck

Shared history was the coin of the realm. — Chris Matthews

Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key there are unexpected rooms beyond, but it is always the master key that unlocks each door. — John H. Van Vleck

You'll remain, Mike. You'll remain with me. I'll always miss you, and I'll always love you. — Martin Sixsmith

The Republican Party is extremely pro-women. — Michele Bachmann

Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth. — Mary McCarthy

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. — Tom Van Vleck

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. — Tom Van Vleck

There is no attempt made by these simple and honest men, the father and son, to pretend that the dead woman was anything greatly other than she was; their respect is for death, and for the human weakness and mystery which it must finally cover. — G.K. Chesterton

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night. — Tom Van Vleck

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

V settled back against the pillows and measured the hard line of her chin.
"Take off your coat."
"Excuse me?"
"Take it off."
"No."
"I want it off."
"Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. — J.R. Ward

Sincerity' and 'morality' is the main road to go to God, the rest are the 'by-ways'. — Dada Bhagwan

We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply. — Tom Van Vleck

And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? 'All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.' That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, no God, never was. — George Carlin