Henry Petroski Quotes

Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular crashes, which we tend to find more interesting than cars just racing around the track. The same is true of bridges, buildings, or any structure or machine.

Henry Petroski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1942

Topics

PeopleThinkBridgesInterestingWhy

I'm just trying to avoid any future surgery. I'm just trying to stand up straighter. And the hip and back are better.

Jim Irsay

FutureStand UpStandBetterTrying

From the time I sang my first solo in church when I was probably 12 years old, I was bitten by the bug. From that point on, I never wanted to do anything else.

Jimi Westbrook

TimeChurchNeverFirstAnything

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.

Jerry Spinelli

LiveMyselfSheHappenWriterEven

I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.

Andrew Rosenthal

ReadPrintiPadHonestlyPrefer

Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

Andy Behrman

New YorkThoughtsNightFlyingTrain

Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.

Megan Smith

PassionAttentionUniqueKidEach

I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.

Tony Gilroy

FreedomFunRealityMoviesCandy

So much of what I do... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are... I love it.

Rob Thomas

LovePeopleTryingNewKnowSay

Yeah, I miss the Grateful Dead. I miss that groove. I miss the brotherhood. Absolutely. There's no doubt about it.

Mickey Hart

GratefulBrotherhoodDoubtDeadMiss

I would be upset if I was on the 'worst dressed'. It would make me think, 'Surely I haven't done anything that horrific - have I?'

Louise Nurding

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My ultimate search has been for a muse.

Dominic Monaghan

SearchMuseBeenUltimate

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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