L. Sprague de Camp Quotes

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

L. Sprague de Camp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000

Topics

WorkNatureGoodStruggleManStory

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

Jesse Ventura

LifeHappinessConstitutionCharity

One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.

Jeremy Grantham

MoneyDayPotentialLongPigWill

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.

Jenna Dewan

GoodMeSongAlwaysLikeMadonna

I can tell everything about a restaurant through their mussels. You have to work so hard to keep them perfect.

Andrew Zimmern

WorkRestaurantYouPerfectI Can

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

John Lasseter

PicturesWantTrySeeMakeWould

Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals.

Simon Kuznets

SuccessPurposeWarCountryEqual

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Rosalind Russell

AdversityManProsperityHeUntil

When I was 16, everyone else got a car; I got a motorcycle.

Jason Priestley

CarMotorcycleEveryoneGotElse

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Donna Karan

LoveArchitectureSpacePeopleYou

The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.

David Weinberger

WorldChaotic

Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

Chip Conley

SuccessFutureBusinessTimeStart

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

Boris Becker

GoodHeroSmallShortKnowKind

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