Quotes About Schenectady

#1. I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

Ivar Giaever

#3. The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

Colin Angle

#5. Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland, in Albany and Schenectady, near where I grew up. Discount was always a huge disruptor - it disrupted Sears Roebuck.

Craig Hatkoff

#6. I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way.

Karleen Koen

#8. The key to this world is to be loved by your fellow man and to be liked by yourself.

JohnA Passaro

#9. I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything.

Eric Thomas

#10. Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

Moira Young

#11. I helped launch 'ET' ... I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

Robin Leach

#12. Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#13. Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#14. For me, there is a strange beauty in remembering.

Kia Amazona

#15. The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass.

James Patterson

#16. I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.

John Trudell

#17. The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.

Lilly Ledbetter