Henry Petroski Quotes

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

Henry Petroski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

Jo Brand

YourselfMeControlCalmSomeone

I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

Andy Roddick

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I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

Ana Ortiz

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I think the success of any brand reboot is to acknowledge the heritage but to embrace and interpret it in a way that makes it relevant and wearable to the modern consumer.

Simon Spurr

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I was obsessed with 'The Lion King' as a kid, and I really wanted to go work in an animal sanctuary and have my Lara Croft moment.

Shura

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My reality is the misconceptions about me.

Tori Spelling

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It's not that I find it hard to meet girls - they do come up and chat me up from time to time. Sometimes I'm interested, I tend not to go for the prettier ones. I prefer the quirkier types.

Rupert Grint

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Sometimes my fans are too nice.

Mike Birbiglia

NiceSometimesFansToo

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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Currently, we are working to deliver our anti-aging gene therapies to terminally ill people for compassionate care. Although, in the future we think that preventative medicine against aging would begin at a much younger age.

Liz Parrish

FutureAgeAgingPeopleMedicine

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

Cindy Gallop

WomenYouPersonalRightsLike

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

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