Andrew Taylor Still Quotes

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.

Andrew Taylor Still

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 6, 1828 - December 12, 1917

Topics

LifeWorkFatherBetterFarmerOld

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Joe Clark

TrainingToolsEnoughMediaBad

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

SpeakProblemsThinkBedHappened

Whether straight, gay, bi, trans... body image and identity can be a struggle for us all.

Ruby Rose

StruggleIdentityBodyGayImageUs

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

Russell Baker

JournalismSeriousNeedSolemn

The first year I moved to Nashville, I started playing these songwriter nights with people like Nickel Creek, Duncan Sheik, and even Ryan Adams... That was the first place I really started playing music, and I had to really step up my game. Really quick. Or get kicked off the stage.

Mat Kearney

MusicStepPeopleGameYearPlace

Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.

Joseph Murray

CellsGoingUsefulStemStem Cells

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

Jose Ferreira

MoreSan FranciscoBay AreaBayThan

If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will take advantage of you in a heartbeat. It takes a long time to get back in fighting form.

Douglas Conant

TimeFightingLongYouBackWill

I love wearing drag.

David Walliams

LoveDragWearingI Love

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Bryan Adams

MusicJobDoingPlayKnowNever

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

Willie Geist

BaseballGolfTraditionReadyPlay

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Peter Diamandis

ChangeLivingWhereOnlyIncredible

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