Compulsions Quotes

I found what I was looking for at Langley.

This was what a research mathematician did.

I went to work every day for 33 years happy.

Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835.

It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.

It will be the greatest disappointment of my life

if I don't go out with Halley's Comet.

The Almighty has said,

no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks;

they came in together, they must go out together.'

Sometimes when you innovate,

you make mistakes.

It is best to admit them quickly,

and get on with improving your other innovations.

Maybe Christmas,

the Grinch thought,

doesn't come from a store.

I'm like a big 10 year old when I'm on stage.

I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.

There are a number of women

who have brought about

immense change in society.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate;

and while the debate goes on,

the canal does also.

Only through focus can you do world class things,

no matter how capable you are.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I have never taken any exercise,

except sleeping and resting,

and I never intend to take any.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting;

but never hit soft.

Be gentle to all and

stern with yourself

These men ask for just the same thing,

fairness, and fairness only.

This, so far as in my power,

they, and all others, shall have.

A capacity, and taste,

for reading gives access to whatever

has already been discovered by others.

My wife is always trying to get rid of me.

The other day she told me to put the garbage out.

I said to her I already did.

She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,

and must undergo and withstand,

the shocks of adversity,

before it is entitled to the appellation.

I too sing America.

Laughter is timeless,

imagination has no age,

dreams are forever.

Be careless in your dress if you must,

but keep a tidy soul.