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I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. More Rudyard Kipling
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. More George Eliot
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask. More Henry David Thoreau
There was a great deal I had to unlearn. In the theatre there was exaggeration in everything I did. More Bela Lugosi
The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives. More unknown unknown
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. More Sir William Osler
I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world. More Angelina Jolie
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. More John Milton
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves. More Cotvos Cotvos
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. More Sandy Gallin
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. More Henry Brooks Adams
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. More George Henry Lewes
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. More Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously. More Geri Halliwell
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. More Francis Bacon
John Beckwith: I'm reading don't-kill-myself books! More Sandy Gallin
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. More William Hazlitt
Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths. More Vic Braden
Glenn Odekirk: We installed the 450 radial, but the struts won't take the vibration. Minute we go contact, the struts start craking at the attach points.
Howard Hughes: Dammit, Odie, if the 450's too big, figure something else out!
Glenn Odekirk: We've done everything - we've rebuilt her from top to bottom. If we drain the fuel tank for a couple of runs she might make 180 mph.
Howard Hughes: I want minimum 200.
Glenn Odekirk: Yeah, well, I want a date with Theda Bara, but that ain't gonna happen either.
Howard Hughes: Don't be so sure... OK, OK, OK, this is a simple engineering problem. We just gotta think it out.
[pause]
Howard Hughes: So if the struts won't sustain the engine we need - then we gotta get rid of them.
Glenn Odekirk: Then the top wing falls off.
Howard Hughes: Then let it.
Glenn Odekirk: What?
Howard Hughes: Who says we need a top wing?
[pauses]
Howard Hughes: Who says we need *anything*?
[Glenn is warming up to Hughes' idea]
Glenn Odekirk: A monoplane...
Howard Hughes: A cantilevered monoplane. They're doing it in France. To the hell with the top wing and the struts...
Glenn Odekirk: 550 Whitney Wasp engine...
Howard Hughes: 100 octane fuel will give us a top horsepower of - what?
Glenn Odekirk: Seven hundred.
Howard Hughes: Squeeze it to a thousand and we got the fastest plane ever built.
Glenn Odekirk: You know, I just gotta say... we've already spent over $200,000 rebuilding this plane.
Howard Hughes: To the hell with it.
[smiles]
Howard Hughes: Tear it up, Odie.
[Glenn takes a sledgehammer and annihilates the struts on the top wing; the top wing falls off] More Sandy Gallin
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. More Socrates

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