George Stephenson Quotes

I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.

George Stephenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: inventor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 9, 1781 - August 12, 1848

Topics

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You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

Joe Biden

ControlInsuranceYouKnowGoing

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

Joe Dante

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Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Jerry Lewis

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The fact that I'm on CNN today is something I never would have guessed as a 13-year-old - or any other age, for that matter.

Joel Burns

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I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.

Matt Cameron

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Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Robert Cecil

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The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.

Rudolf Steiner

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Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly names. Like my own kids, they're not honeys and sweetie pies and little angels. They're kids. Sloppy, dirty, stinky.

Judith Viorst

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If there's one thing that I've learned from both Spike Lee and Tarantino, it's that you can wear your influences on your sleeve but at the same time invoke new energy and new flavor.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

Bradley Whitford

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Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

William J. Clinton

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You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

Penelope Wilton

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