Ezra Cornell Quotes

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

Ezra Cornell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 11, 1807 - December 9, 1874

Topics

WaterFeetSummerNewRockTunnel

About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.

Jeremy Stoppelman

TechnologyTruthMomentLookingYear

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

John Coltrane

WorkMusicBirdThinkLearnFirst

I started making beats when I was 13.

Metro Boomin

StartedMakingBeats

Women need a space that quenches their intellectual hunger, engages and empowers them with relatable content.

Anand Mahindra

WomenSpaceIntellectualNeedHunger

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

YoungOutBeenAcademiaSinceEver

I've played a lot of wide-eyed kids.

Tom Holland

KidsPlayedLot

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

Tom Stoppard

ControlPlaySometimesEventsOver

A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.

Robert Carlyle

WorkGoodChildhoodProblemsYou

I worked on three independent movies in close succession and... I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.

Michael Urie

HappyShipBudgetDoneThreeMovies

Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

Marvin Sapp

MotivationalAloneWifeBeing Alone

The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.

Mike Crapo

LifeHappinessGovernmentPeopleNew

The myriad of ways that a song can be interpreted is astounding to me, and it's part of the allure of writing.

LP

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