David Blackwell Quotes

#1. I've worked in so many areas
I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.

David Blackwell

#2. Maybe there was a place where the people were safe, where Archer and his kin had carved out a place free from danger. Or maybe the dark magic her father had feared had consumed them all, and turned the only boy she'd ever loved into a monster beyond reckoning.

Anonymous

#3. I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].

Scott Raab

#4. Breast cancer is not just a woman's issue - it affects all of us: the brothers, husbands, fathers, children and friends.

Ralph Lauren

#5. Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. When I first saw you when we were destined, I promised myself that I wouldn't force you to love me, but I would find a way to win you.

Andrea Cremer

#7. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been ... I'm interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.

David Blackwell

#8. She was generally considered to be a pretty woman; and, since she was as good-natured as she was foolish, she was almost universally liked.

Georgette Heyer

#9. Elizabeth Blackwell, "with a very slender purse and few introductions of any value," found herself in the "unknown world" of Paris. What made her situation different from that of other American visitors was her profession. She was a doctor - the first American woman to have become a doctor.

David McCullough

#10. I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.

Donald Trump

#11. Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!

Marvin Minsky