Henry Petroski Quotes

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

Henry Petroski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HappyMeWritingLongWonderThings

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Joan Armatrading

MusicRomanticLikeBaroqueReally

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

Jerry Weller

MarriageTodayValentine's DayBest

When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

SchoolControlYouNothingEurope

Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.

Rita Ora

PeopleThinkYouLookSometimes

I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.

Rod Lurie

GoodPoliticsNutsUpShapeJust

What I find is that you don't need to go for fancy mascara - I always get the L'Oreal ones from the drugstore. I get the gold tube, Voluminous Million Lashes in black.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

GoldBlackYouFindGoNeed

Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.

Janine Benyus

CarPeopleDieYearNowMore

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

Jonathan Galassi

WorldThinkYouWayFictionShould

Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies.

Dina Powell

WomenBestGrowCreateBuildMore

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

Arielle Dombasle

LoveKindTasteVictimBeing

There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.

Phil Niekro

ThinkingGoBoxMaySureFacing

With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.

Phil Anselmo

ExperimentTakeSomethingHeavyLike

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