John Vincent Atanasoff Quotes

#1. I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

Jane Smiley

#2. It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

Tom Stoppard

#3. America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

Henry Ford

#4. It's all about the confidence.

Denise Bidot

#5. The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

Ahmed Chalabi

#6. Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close ... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.

Aaron Lazar

#8. I'm never going to live this down. I will forever be known as the pastor's kid who got arrested, made friends in jail, and threw up on the singles camping trip. That will look great on a resume.

A.C. Williams

#9. The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

Otto Rank

#10. Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization of the human race, with men becoming more effeminate and women becoming more masculine, not only in physical [appearance] but in their basic characters.

Billy Graham

#11. I'm no longer human and there is no past.' (Acheron's litany)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to do as he will, because of the life that he has given me. I am thankful for him, for the fact that out of all of us, I am the one that he chooses to keep and care for as his own.

Astrid Knowles

#13. We're going to have to control the spending of government.

Kevin McCarthy

#14. For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.

Tom Six

#15. See? This is the type of fuckery I have to listen to (with a straight face) for hours on end.

Whitney G.