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James Dyson Quotes

I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.

James Dyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: designer
Nationality: british
Birth: May 2, 1947

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Best Think You Know Never First

There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.

John Burnside

Sea Beach Red Wind World Trees

Nobody in the developing world is going to take, as an answer to their aspirations, the developed world's reply: 'Sorry, you can't; we've already used it all up.' To earn the right to look the developing world in the eye and start this conversation, we need a reassessment of how we live and what we want.

John Lanchester

Live World Eye Start Sorry Look

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

Robert Rodriguez

Time Money Creative You Too Much

When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Matthew McConaughey

Good Time Listening Eye You Look

I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I'd never tip my hand to the other side.

Steve Bannon

Time Politics War You Know Plans

Ten million 16-year-old girls would sell their right arm to live the life that I've had.

Su-chin Pak

Life Live Right Sell Would Million

The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.

Sid Waddell

Yourself Cricket You Talk Ask Him

I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.

Trisha Yearwood

Positive Hate Singing Night Song

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

Michael Storm

Music Guitar Back Rage Us Banjo

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.

Brian Greene

Great Mind Way Out Idea Universes

I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

Bonnie Tyler

Love Confidence Me Influence Back

I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory.

Bob Saget

Day People Me Wake Up Laugh Dirty