Henry Petroski Quotes

There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

Henry Petroski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

UnderstandingWayHardSurviving

I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

Joaquin Phoenix

LifeMy LifeMediaMostFrontSpend

I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor.

Joe Alwyn

AgeDanceTableYoungActorAlways

Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.

Jerry Lewis

LifeYouTakeCannotInterviews

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

Rita Ora

DreamsAccomplishmentAmericaYou

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Mary Kay Ash

WorldEnoughYouPriceWantPay

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

Michio Kaku

ImpossibleDangerousWordPhysicist

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman

ScienceArchitectureGovernmentNever

A higher IOER rate encourages banks to raise the interest rates they charge, putting upward pressure on market interest rates regardless of the level of reserves in the banking sector. While adjusting the IOER rate is an effective way to move market interest rates when reserves are plentiful, federal funds have generally traded below this rate.

Janet Yellen

PressureWayBankingLevelMarket

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

Craig Johnston

CarTimeYearSkillsParkHiding

I'm that type of person that loves change.

Coco Rocha

ChangePersonTypeLoves

In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.

Colin Angle

HomeFutureTechnologySmartVoice

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

Bob Seger

GreatNightRestI CanPlayBoring

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