Henry Petroski
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's be... DIANA NYAD Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then ther... KEN CUCCINELLI It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and... TOM SCHOLZ OLIVE SCHREINER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural ta... DAVID WELLS There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes.... EUZHAN PALCY HARRISON FORD JIM COURIER It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like i... D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical r... BILLE AUGUST In many cases, it was from their homes at gunpoint. There were no receipts given or anything else at... WAYNE LAPIERRE I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are ... CHUCK LORRE CHARLES KURALT There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel ... DANIEL WOODRELL EVE ENSLER GOLDA MEIR 'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a subs... JACK REYNOR DAVID SUZUKI PAUL DANO PETER DIAMANDIS TREY GOWDY In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money... GARY LINEKER JAMES MATTIS NANCY REAGAN ALANIS MORISSETTE JOSEPH CONRAD BIG BOI KARL MARX I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of t... ESTER DEAN BURT RUTAN Peer attachments are not the problem themselves. It's when they compete with adult attachments t... GORDON NEUFELD RUSH LIMBAUGH ALAN WATTS People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesse... LAURA AMY SCHLITZ Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themsel... BARRY MANN There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish. DREW BREES JACKIE EVANCHO BOBBY FLAY FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER ELTON JOHN America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the othe... JOE DEMPSIE LINDA RONSTADT JANINE DI GIOVANNI BETTY WILLIAMS ROBERT B. PARKER I have walked into several pubs, and guys in there have said to me, 'My God, you are the girl of... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN Once, I was going to a film event, and someone told me not to wear high heels to it. They said that ... EVELYNE BROCHU WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. The reason there's not a dictatorship in Chile and that there's a democracy in South Africa ... JOE GARCIA SONIA SOTOMAYOR DOVE CAMERON PETER KREEFT CARRIE FISHER RICHARD ROGERS ROBERT H. SCHULLER LYSANDER SPOONER There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top. TOM HICKS COLONEL SANDERS WARREN FARRELL RICKY GERVAIS Considering the 'Tomorrow People' are supposed to be the next step in human evolution, I thi... LUKE MITCHELL PAIGE VANZANT The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish,... TAMER HASSAN EDDIE REDMAYNE RAY BRADBURY MALCOLM TURNBULL How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally,... W. AVERELL HARRIMAN There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by par... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN ROBERT SOUTH I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's ... DARRYL PINCKNEY ABDUL QADEER KHAN White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enoug... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's... LESLEY MANVILLE We have no companies now, not in the sense that I know, that nurture actors. It's very depressin... DIANA RIGG When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical... JAMIE CULLUM JASON FRIED BEYONCE KNOWLES You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. Ther... ALESSANDRO NIVOLA JAY LENO POPE BENEDICT XVI I love the romance of the '40s. It was the perfect time to live. Technology wasn't so advanc... BETHANY JOY LENZ I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an... OLESYA RULIN RICHARD P. FEYNMAN It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of ts... RICHARD REEVES Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that th... BASSEM YOUSSEF KEVIN KWAN Donald Trump's whole candidacy from the time he started has been filled with myths by the media ... PAUL MANAFORT KELLYANNE CONWAY I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free educat... RICHARD SHERMAN BUZZ ALDRIN ADAM DRIVER MIA FARROW The scientific method gives us
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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. The... 
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I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money. 
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants... 
Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people ... 
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The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospe... 
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We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new. 
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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulatin... 
I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason t... 
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People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It... 
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I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then,... 
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under ... 
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, becaus... 
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The people who influence you are the people who believe in you. 
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The status quo is simply unacceptable. 
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. 
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. 
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All this, and Heaven too! 
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