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Charles Kettering Quotes

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Charles Kettering

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1876 - November 25, 1958

Topics

You More Need Brains Combination

People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.

Discipline People Think Resolution

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Age Honor Without Middle Cross

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.

Michael Dickinson

Life History Plants Think Giving

I think they will feel refreshed because I cater to a mature audience.

Think Feel Mature Will Audience

Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying the £80 or so per tonne in landfill tax and disposal costs.

Tristram Stuart

Food Best Money Tax Win-Win Waste

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

Law Fashion Moral Intellectual Winds

If I hear music that has a hole in it and has a space for me to fit in, I go for that stuff.

Music Space Me Go Stuff Hole

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

Life I Am Me My Life Hands Say

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of short stories - you realize it's your interpretation of events that people read, and they absorb that.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Life History People Think Short You

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Writing More Humour Excel Kinds

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

Comedy Say Fifty Show Would Percent

I once won a Grammy for an Australian version of 'Turn the Page' that another artist did; I can't remember his name. There've been covers down through the years around the world, but I did like Metallica's, because I kind of related to Metallica when they first came out, because Jimmy Hetfield really reminded me of me in 1965, you know?

Me World Name Remember You Artist

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