Lighthill 1978 Quotes

#1. I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.

Michael Bloomberg

#2. Predictability brings about security.

Magda Gerber

#3. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks.

Lisa Unger

#4. What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

Barbra Streisand

#5. Tally snorted. "I don't think it's exactly boring, Shay." "Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun." "I can," Tally said quietly. "Never having any.

Scott Westerfeld

#6. When my now ex wife said she wanted a separation, I was horrified. So I said, "You want me to wear a condom?!

Jarod Kintz

#7. No, because I am not a ventriloquist.

Russell Banks

#8. What the Ambassador was witnessing - in idea, if not yet in fact - was the transfer of power from its arbitrary exercise by nobles and monarchs to power stationed in a constitution and in representation of the people. The period of the transfer, coinciding with his own career, from 1767 to 1797,

Barbara W. Tuchman

#9. The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.

Adam Braun

#10. The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Konrad Lorenz