Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

Elizabeth McCracken

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PeopleComputersHalfPleasuresKnew

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.

Jenson Button

CarDrivingSomeoneTryingYouBody

Jorginho is not a physical player, he is a technical player, but the most important quality is that he is very quick in the mind. He has the ability to move the ball very quickIy.

Maurizio Sarri

QualityMindImportantQuickAbility

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'

Michael Franti

GoodMusicSleepMeFeel GoodFeet

I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

Sue Miller

RelationshipGriefSufferingPerson

There have been some management issues with Amtrak, but I think they have cleaned up their act.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

ManagementThinkUpActBeenIssues

I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We were down by six and won by two, and it was glorious. The stadium is so beautiful, and the way it frames the city when you're sitting high above the second base line is spectacular.

Mary Doria Russell

LiveBeautifulExperienceCityGame

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

Deepika Padukone

MeStoryFilmmakingFilmThanOther

You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.

Deborah Moggach

InterestingYouLondonMoreSide

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

Bruce Babbitt

WorkWalkTogetherThinkDownLand

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

EducationSweetRootsFruitBitter

To make a very specific car only for India - where you don't know where the segments are tomorrow or will it shift - is tough.

Winfried Vahland

CarTomorrowToughYouIndiaKnow

While my mother lived, I always felt to a certain degree as if I had somebody who was my superior and who exercised a mysterious protection over me. I belonged to something - I hung to something - there is nothing that has so much reverence and religion in it as affection to parents.

William Godwin

MotherReligionParentsMeNothing

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