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Gregory Benford Quotes

It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.

Gregory Benford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 30, 1941

Topics

Good Car Performance Airplane Flying

I don't see myself as offending people.

Jimmy Carr

Myself People See Offending

After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

Jerry Saltz

Good Finish Starting Years Final

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

Andrew Solomon

Happiness Depression World Think You

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

John Clayton

Holiday Christmas Thanksgiving Pretty

I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.

John Rhys-Davies

Work Success Children Think Career

I have a thing that I do when I meet famous people, where I try to play it really cool. Sometimes I pretend like I don't know them.

Rob Huebel

People Cool Famous Play Know Meet

I can't sing anything like my dad.

Rohan Marley

Anything Sing Like Dad

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.

Rosie O'Donnell

Culture Will Sure Again Cause

I ran the L.A. marathon and really loved the experience. Communal and wild and a gigantic challenge. Finishing that marathon means I can do more than I think. I think.

Michael Weatherly

Challenge Experience Think Loved

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

Douglas Bader

Fear Strong Wings Situation Pilot

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

Chazz Palminteri

Women Great Mom Cook Were Sicilian

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

William L. Jenkins

American Soil Lottery Fraud Leave