Slide Rule Quotes

#1. If this was what Mikhail called opening the gate close to Zayvion's body, I was going to kill a compass and a slide rule and send them through the gates of death to him.

Devon Monk

#2. I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.

Baba Kalyani

#3. When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

Charles Kettering

#4. Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

Ray Bradbury

#5. I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

Bill Nye

#6. Scientific reality is as different from lived reality as a slide rule is from a platypus.

Marty Rubin

#7. In due course one learns, where individuals and emotions are concerned, that Time's slide-rule can make unlikely adjustments.

Anthony Powell

#8. Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass!

Ron McKeown

#9. Extroverts were nothing if not dependable.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. Were not the autonomy of the individual the secret longing of many people it would scarcely be able to survive the collective suppression either morally or spiritually.

C. G. Jung

#11. I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.

Fleur East

#12. Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him.

Jonathan Brandis

#13. There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

Chuck Close

#14. I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure off a little. I'm not a naturally extroverted person. But I also like it because it brings in new fans. For example, someone who really loves Aprilynne Pike's books might pick up mine and vice versa.

Veronica Roth

#15. The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Bill Lee

#16. Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

James Bridie

#17. My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."

Milton Berle

#18. What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

Elisabeth Elliot

#19. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering.

Kate Chopin

#20. I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself.'

Tracee Ellis Ross

#21. No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

Seth Godin

#22. It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#23. cheese cauldron.

J.K. Rowling

#24. You look beautiful. I'm so happy I finally agreed to go on this date with you." That makes me laugh. "Really? Were you being hounded relentlessly?" "Like you wouldn't believe," he says, raising his eyebrows. "It's been exhausting having to dodge your advances.

Claire Contreras

#25. The prayer for "our bread" includes the neighbors. It is "our Father" and "our bread.

Kenneth E. Bailey