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When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose… — Anne Fontaine Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half… — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to… — Stewart Copeland Copy Share Image
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane,… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
What appears to be the established order of present-day civilization is actually only the inert but spectacular momentum of a high velocity… — Jose Arguelles Copy Share Image
Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is landscaping. I love landscaping. And so what I'll do is, mostly I put language into search engines, and… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
By mastering both aspects of our being we remember not only how to think, but what to think. What I'm clear about… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
So far, I've only sailed in the Caribbean. I've sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
