William Falconer Quotes

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

William Falconer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: 1732 - 1769

Topics

GreatShipNewWillSheDegree

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

Joaquin Phoenix

SportsBikeMeGrowActingGo

I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.

Joe Bonamassa

MindYouI CanRightSomethingGet

Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.

Joe Gebbia

WorkLookingHumanityLensCompany

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

Maurice Saatchi

PoliticsKingWorldEyePowerful

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

Anna Freud

SpaceEnvironmentalTreesForest

My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.

Robert Edwards

WorkIdeasResearchEarlyFirstHis

While the specifics of Russia's interference in the 2016 American election remain unclear, no one doubts that Moscow has built a robust technological arsenal for waging cyberattacks.

Jared Cohen

AmericanElectionRussiaDoubts

What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.

Chris Avellone

PeopleStupidFeelYouPlayMeet

In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there. It's used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper, bone glue is actually the glue between the sand and the paper. And then in paintbrushes, hairs are used because, apparently, they're very suitable for making paintbrushes because of their hard-wearing nature.

Christien Meindertsma

NatureSandPigGlueInteriorPaint

I'm a vegetarian, so I eat a whole bunch of avocados a lot of the time.

Courtney Eaton

TimeEatVegetarianWholeLotBunch

It's always great when you discover someone.

Brian De Palma

GreatSomeoneYouAlwaysDiscover

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Antonis Samaras

WorkImmigrantsStopWillWithout

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