Henry Spencer Quotes

Sometimes people wonder why aeroplanes are so cheap and rockets are so expensive. Even the most superficial comparison shows one obvious difference: aeroplane engines use outside air to burn their fuel, while rockets have to carry their own oxidisers along.

Henry Spencer

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SpacePeopleWonderBurnSometimes

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Jimmy Carter

GodServiceConflictPublic Service

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Joe Lhota

New YorkCityNewInvolvedMayor

My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.

John Lithgow

RomanticMeNeverLeadDaysBehind

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

John Mayer

MistakesAccidentsHeadDaysWounds

I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in terms of Chekhov comedy. Chekhov called his plays comedies. There's always a mixture of a laugh with sadness. So the plie to the laugh is sadness.

Jeffrey Tambor

SadnessThinkLaughComedyAlways

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

Michael Jackson

CutJustLikeBleedAnyoneEasily

Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.

Stacey D'Erasmo

LifeMysterySatireHalfWrapped

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Tom Douglas

LiveMinimum WageOffWageHow

As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu's perspective on the changes and volatility in the region.

Rob Portman

PerspectiveTragedyCrisisChanges

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

Mason Cooley

ThinkingLogicRulesPresentation

My wife's Lisa Bonet. I'm a very lucky man.

Jason Momoa

WifeManLuckyVery

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

Dennis Farina

RestYouDirectorWhateverLeaveUp

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