R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: inventor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983

Topics

YourselfSearchVirtueOthersVices

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

Jilly Cooper

FunnyBeautifulManCleverYesMust

Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.

Jo Cox

RecruitingBrutalityBeenExtremism

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

Andre Leon Talley

LifePeopleNeedNeedsEdited

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

Meat Loaf

HairDoingActorParkStarted

I'd love to do 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' again - especially on Broadway.

Megan Hilty

LoveBroadwayAgainBlondesPrefer

The ranking... it's just a number.

Angelique Kerber

NumberJustRanking

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.

Amy Lee

DogMeNightDeepSexyPowerful

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

John Philip Sousa

SuccessPeoplePersonalOverOther

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.

Alton Brown

ScienceHistoryFoodKitchenPhysics

My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.

Alvin Lee

FatherHomeHeartTimeDayParents

I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it's all about.

Rivers Cuomo

GreatQualityPerformanceThinkFlow

The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.

Rob Delaney

FunnyDogBestWalkBirdsWorld

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