Related Quotes
axes america people
The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. Bill Maher
axes two legs
One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it. Jamie Hyneman
axes cylinders gravity
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis. Archimedes
axes believe comedic drama good grinding prefer prose sharper writer
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. Gore Vidal
axes east west
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted. Jared Diamond
axes use grind
God grinds the axes he intends to use. Dave Sim
axes space people
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought. Stephen Jay Gould
axes coal fed few handle mills mines nor thousands visualize whose work
We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp. Louis MacNeice
axes wind heads-or-tails
Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails. Lord Byron
want faces misery
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing. Charles Dickens
want waste firsts
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. Charles Spurgeon
want revival reverence
If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
want walks
I want to walk through life. Alanis Morissette
want wake-up illusion
If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. Alan Watts
want doe angle
I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does? Alan Rickman
want making-money
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money. Alan Greenspan
want painting feels
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away. Alan Bean
want herds
I don't want to follow the herd. Alain Robert
lectures heard
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside. Aristotle
lectures quarrel
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness. Os Guinness
lectures needs life-is
I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you. John McCain
lectures habit professors
Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. Hal Boyle
lectures nature
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
lectures looks audience
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read. Sinclair Lewis
lectures physics teach
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach. Michael Faraday
lectures distinguished valet
I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead. Witold Gombrowicz
lectures essentials watches
A watch is the most essential part of a lecture. Willa Cather