Norman Foster Quotes

There are those airports which make you feel better, and there are those airports that, when you go there, your heart sinks: you can't wait to get out of there. They both function as airports, but it's the things that you can't measure that make them different.

Norman Foster

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HeartWaitBetterFeelYouMeasure

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Maxim Gorky

DrinkMoreWriteContemporaryThan

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

John Starks

GameRememberYouQuietReadyPlay

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.

Steve Case

PeopleInternetTen YearsYearsOut

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

Rory Bremner

PowerPeopleDemocracyThinkLaugh

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

Mary Wortley Montagu

ManWorldImpossibleRiseSayMore

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Moliere

CompromiseHeavenTruePleasures

Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.

Denise Van Outen

LoveMenFeelPretendLikeWanted

My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.

Chris Hemsworth

MeCricketThinkPlayGoSwing

I gain a lot of confidence through study.

Autumn Reeser

ConfidenceStudyThroughGainLot

Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Alice Foote MacDougall

LifeSuccessOpportunityMindOpen

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

Paul Theroux

LifeTravelMeGunMy LifeYou

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

Richard K. Morgan

ScienceShadowBlackThinkLong

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