Frank Whittle Quotes

Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?

Frank Whittle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: inventor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 1, 1907 - August 9, 1996

Topics

WellBloodyDesigned

My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.

Jillian Michaels

LifeLivePeopleBetterHelpTrying

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

Jerry Springer

PoliticsReligionTreatBelieveYou

I'm not violent.

Jeremy Renner

Violent

When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy.' I never understood that argument at all. I just didn't agree with the premise.

Maureen Dowd

SayingCriticismEnoughHousePerson

A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don't know what they think.

Stephan Pastis

PeopleMeThinkFeedbackHideKnow

I'm a cinephile. I love foreign films; I love films that are really immersive.

Trevante Rhodes

LoveForeignReallyI LoveFilms

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

Trevor Nunn

WorkPeopleEnthusiasmDoubtInside

'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.

Tom Dumont

ThinkSummerGoWillMoreOver

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

ChildrenDisciplineAlwaysResentment

Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.

Jonathan Zittrain

TreatSearchDataPersonalOthers

When I was a little boy, I was fascinated by the way my dad used to laugh at the telly, and from a very early age, I had an idea of what was funny and why people laughed.

Dominic Holland

FunnyAgePeopleLaughEarlyWhy

Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

Devdutt Pattanaik

CommunityImaginationWorldBelieve

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