Maudslay Quotes

#1. Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question what business has it to be there?, avoid complexities, and make everything as simple as possible.

Henry Maudslay

#2. Every one of these things I said was a knife at myself. Everything I had ever secretly held against my brother was coming out: how ugly I was and what filth I was discovering in the depths of my own impure psychologies (214).

Jack Kerouac

#3. Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.

Beck

#4. First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.

Henry Maudslay

#5. Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace's last name. It was the name of heroes.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Two days later a Scout simply disappeared without explanation, possibly the victim of a micrometeoroid, or even of suicide.

Neal Stephenson

#7. Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life ... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

Mark Udall

#8. We have to be careful not to let our game not be the game we know it should be.

Paul Ince

#9. In a free society, you get what you celebrate

Dean Kamen

#10. [In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.

John Desmond Bernal

#11. There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.

Vernon Howard

#12. People are not here to meet your expectations.

Leo Buscaglia

#13. He fell for a hundred years into darkness

Neil Gaiman

#14. In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.

Suzanne Collins

#15. The candidates we have in this campaign are ... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

Hillary Clinton

#16. Rome alone can resist Rome.

Pierre Corneille

#17. Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

Samuel Johnson