Relayed Thesaurus Quotes

#1. Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

Henry Petroski

#2. Strange things happened to them ... some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is refired forever.

John Steinbeck

#3. I want to drink you in with my eyes till I am intoxicated forever.

Andrew M. Greeley

#4. For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

Rodney Stark

#5. Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

Aaron Watson

#6. Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

Eileen Collins

#7. All things are in various stages of completion.

Wolf Wickham

#8. I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.

Paul Bremer

#9. We're not mad, he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

Thomm Quackenbush

#10. I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

Frances O'Grady

#11. Do what you love. It's going to lead to where you want to go.

Wayne White

#12. I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Brian K. Vaughan