The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
I was never one to run away from trouble - I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem… — Sean Quinn Copy Share Image
I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers...… — David Shuster Copy Share Image
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year… — David Souter Copy Share Image
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by… — Herbert Muschamp Copy Share Image
[On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image