Quotes About George Stephenson

#1. George Stephenson, with a sagacity of mind in advance of the science of his day, answered, when asked what was the ultimate cause of motion of his locomotive engine, 'that it went by the bottled-up rays of the sun.

Carl Wilhelm Siemens

#2. [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

#3. To really know life you've got to be part of life. You must get down and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence. You have to rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what he is.

L. Ron Hubbard

#4. The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.

George Stephenson

#5. Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.

Robert Downey Jr.

#6. Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.

George Stephenson

#7. I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.

George Stephenson

#8. Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Gever Tulley

#9. Apollo knew well and good that wishes were nothing more than dust held together with hope, impossible to hold and foolish to dwell on.

Annabeth Albert

#10. The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected ... Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#11. I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.

George Stephenson

#12. Peter had spent his whole life in a town where fights were either drunken and friendly, or silent and petty. True war was foreign to him. He thought of how scared and confused he had been when the battle broke out in the Nest; he was in a different world now.

Jonathan Auxier

#13. Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

Tracey Gold

#14. Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you. You have to throw all that other stuff away and not be worried about this epic responsibility, or it will just crush and paralyze you.

Zack Snyder

#15. Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain.

Lewis Pugh

#16. The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

George Stephenson

#17. The effects of overworking; you forget which day it is and unable to think straight.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Become Amish? If you admire our faith, strengthen yours. If you admire our sense of commitment, deepen yours. If you admire our community spirit, build your own. If you admire the simple life, cut back. If you admire deep character and enduring values, live them yourself.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#19. The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it

David Dickinson

#20. The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

Bruce Feiler

#21. To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

George Stephenson