Clyde Tombaugh Quotes

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Clyde Tombaugh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 4, 1906 - January 17, 1997

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MusicManMeBetterPlaceOld

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.

Andrea Martin

ChangeCharacterHistoryMeHelp

I think strong countries and strong nationalist movements in countries make strong neighbors. And that is really the building blocks that built Western Europe and the United States, and I think it's what can see us forward.

Steve Bannon

BuildingForwardStrongThinkSee

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

LifeWalkPeopleYouUpBigger

I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.

Jonathan Demme

LoveInterestingCameraYouSeeing

My grandfather was a ship's cook, and he came back from the Far East very often with strange little toys. One of the things he brought back was a puzzle box, which obsessed me for a long time.

Clive Barker

TimeMePuzzleShipLongBack

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

Chuck Palahniuk

PeopleIdeasThoughtLegendPowerful

Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.

Brock Lesnar

LifeTimeMeBadTimingExit

This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.

Arthur Golden

TimePeopleDetailsPersonRight

When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!

Armando Iannucci

ArroganceYouStopAlwaysSomething

Celebrate the things that make you individual and unique, and realize that there's no one in this world that looks like you.

Philomena Kwao

WorldCelebrateYouUniqueLooks

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

Prince

MotherDayMeMomAngelSaying

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Montesquieu

FreeWellFertileCountries

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