Arup Engineering Quotes

#1. Goes to war, still encourages the production of unwanted C3 children by exhausted mothers, and still compels married partners who hate one another to live together in the name of morality.

Vera Brittain

#2. Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

Ang Lee

#3. If you don't know how, why pretend?

Huang E

#4. I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.

Lyle Lovett

#5. I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

Tim Tebow

#6. I never wanted to settle for 'good enough.' I wanted 'great' or nothing.

Danielle Steel

#7. Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

Horace Mann

#8. Is there anything worse than feeling alone when you're surrounded by your friends?

Gemma Burgess

#9. Deliberate motions are mistake free motions, she told herself as she angled in toward the tether. Mistake free motions are speed. Speed is life.

Evan Currie

#10. Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.

Ove Arup

#11. The game enforces smirks; but we have seen
The moon in lonely alleys make
A grail of laughter of an empty ash can,
And all through the sound of gaiety and quest
Have heard a kitten in the wilderness.

Hart Crane

#12. Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft.

Ove Arup

#13. I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

Thomas Mallon

#14. My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

David Pogue

#15. War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Bruce Jackson

#16. Dark with excessive bright.

John Milton

#17. I love winning. I don't like losing.

Caroline Wozniacki