Forrest Bird Quotes

In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

Forrest Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: inventor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 9, 1921 - August 2, 2015

Topics

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Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Michael Ende

ArtListeningThinkSeeHalfWell

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

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My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

Ruth Reichl

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That's the state of mind I have - I always want to be better.

Romelu Lukaku

MindBetterWantAlwaysState

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

Rosemary Mahoney

TimeThinkYouPersonEffectMost

One of the big things, especially if you're eating out frequently, is either splitting an entree with someone or ordering a protein-heavy appetizer for an entree, like a salmon or steak tartar. If I'm dying for a burger, I'll get the burger but have it with salad instead of fries and a glass of red wine instead of a beer.

Mary Helen Bowers

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Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way because they are just not that entertaining.

Miguel Sapochnik

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Books, the children of the brain.

Jonathan Swift

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After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

Dikembe Mutombo

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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Confucius

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'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.

Brad Feld

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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

William Hazlitt

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