Littles Quotes - Page 68

A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.

We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

No one had much faith in me because I was so young. They imagined a little brat with a flash-in-the-pan single. It was inevitable... Thankfully, I proved people wrong.

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoulder ... shake ... a little lingerie!

Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.

As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.

We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

The next phase and this is part of what I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration. There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too. That you have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited. To me it is more beautiful than a topless club

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Little things are big.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.