Isambard Quotes

#1. The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

Pete Townshend

#2. I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

Fergus Henderson

#3. Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Alex Noble

#4. I stepped free of Isambard and shoved Michael in the chest. I caught him off guard. He tumbled to the dock, and rolled into the water with a splash.
"I hope there are zombie sharks in there and they bite you and you die!" I screamed.

Lia Habel

#5. I am going to design ... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Isambard K. Brunel

#6. My eyes can scan the list of work in progress, and I know immediately what's happening in the current month. I even use custom icons on Windows and color-coding on Mac to get even more information at a glance when I open my go-to folder - see the sidebar.

Jill Duffy

#7. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. "But it's not your job to understand." That's me who answers. God never says anything. Tou think you're the only one he never answers?

Markus Zusak

#8. Once more Isambard looked completely terrified. Twice in one night! This was going to be a diary entry for the ages.

Lia Habel

#9. I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.

Paul Weller

#10. If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

#11. I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Isambard K. Brunel

#12. I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

Alan Shepard

#13. Each fragrance bottle and name captured a moment in time perfectly.

Roja Dove

#14. Jenny," he whispered. "My Jenny.

Amanda Gray

#15. Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.

Anuj

#16. The pictures in the library book had provided the idea, hunger and darkness had given me the inspiration, and I'd set out myself on this long, amazing journey.

William Kamkwamba

#17. The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

John Buchan