Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

Mike Tyson

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Simon Raven

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Russell Baker

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Immanuel Kant

Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

Shawn Fanning

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

Gloria Swanson

My family begins with me, your family ends with you.

Iphicrates

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

John F. Kennedy

When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me.

Rodney Dangerfield

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life consists of the chance without the capacity

Mark Twain

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

Stephen King

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

Laura Schlessinger