James Nasmyth Quotes

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.

James Nasmyth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: inventor
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: August 19, 1808 - May 7, 1890

Topics

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In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.

Joe Gebbia

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A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop their resources, raise their living standards, and strengthen their national independence, the safer the world will be for us all.

Robert Kennedy

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If I want to look half decent, a blow dry is a godsend. I'm crap at doing my own hair.

Suki Waterhouse

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Hispanic citizens know that illegal labor is taking jobs from their children and their legal immigrant friends.

Tom Tancredo

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The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

Riz Ahmed

MusicPeopleMeProcessActingUs

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

Milton Friedman

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My father has the most tremendous personality and wonderful looks - he looks like Fredric March.

Jason Robards

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It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.

Christine O'Donnell

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When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

Chuck Feeney

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My hands. I'm constantly working on my hands. I'm constantly working on my ground game and constantly trying not to get satisfied with where I'm at with my career and where I'm at as an athlete. I'm somewhat happy, but never satisfied.

Brock Lesnar

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It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.

Philippe Petit

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I do not believe there are any circumstances in which a judge should consider his or her own values or policy preferences in determining what the law means.

Paul Watford

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