Quotes About James Watt

#1. For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Rontgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new ...

Alexander Fleming

#2. James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.

Jeremy Rifkin

#3. James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.

Humphry Davy

#4. I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

David Antin

#5. When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

Josemaria Escriva

#6. They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

James G. Watt

#7. The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors.

Steven Soderbergh

#8. How little one knows, really, about anything! And how grossly incurious one remains about so many things, what an enormous number of intrinsically astonishing achievements one merely takes for granted!

Aldous Huxley

#9. I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

Caleb Carr

#11. Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.

Claire Cross

#12. She ate with her fingers, as her father did, for the first time in months, for the first time in this new house in Seattle. Akash sat between them in his booster seat, wanting to eat with his fingers, too, but this was something Ruma had not taught him to do.

Anonymous

#13. Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.

Herbert Hoover

#14. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

Sol LeWitt

#16. Red beans and ricely yours.

Louis Armstrong

#17. I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.

James G. Watt

#18. My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

James G. Watt

#19. I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible ... and enjoying everything in between.

Mia Farrow

#20. After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.

James G. Watt

#21. In the 1980s ... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.

James G. Watt

#22. Bubbles form when too many people expect values to go up forever. Bubbles burst when there are no longer enough excessively optimistic and ignorant folks to fuel them. And there are signs that this is beginning to happen already where education is concerned.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds

#23. Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

James G. Watt

#24. True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier - when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

Richard Hamming

#25. Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel?

L.A. Meyer

#26. Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three pillars of society: the family unit, work ethic and faith. That's not good for America.

James G. Watt

#27. Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

Ethel M. Dell

#28. Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a thirty-watt bulb didn't want to confront thousands of words. The medium required a little extra white space, a sort of oasis for the optic nerve.

James Marcus

#29. Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

Mark Twain