Sir Ove Arup Quotes

#1. Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.

Ove Arup

#2. At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.

Gene Kelly

#3. No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

Paul Theroux

#4. There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.

Lisa Bevere

#5. When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

Ove Arup

#6. Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.

Alain Aspect

#7. Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft.

Ove Arup

#8. Kelsey was up there, and she was devastated. Holding it together,

Heather Graham

#9. The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

John Dryden

#10. The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

Stephenie Meyer

#11. You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Mitt Romney