“By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?” YearsLooksTermSpaceRiskDoorsDyingSafetyMilesFlyingFlightPlanesAirlinePassengersSpace ShuttleFatality Author:Burt Rutan
“In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.” LooksHumanityTermBuddhismWestEastCirclesSquaresRectangles Author:Frederick Lenz
“The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply being screwed, or whether one looks at this in terms of corporations who are benefiting, the fact is it is certainly not helping the American economy.” MenLooksCountryFactsHelpingTermEconomyMen And WomenLaborCorporationsWorking ManOutsourcingAmerican Economy Author:Lou Dobbs
“I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.” IfsWritingLooksSometimesStoriesCoursesOpportunityTermFictionClassCreativePaperMajorsHistoricalJournalismIf I CouldHistorical FictionPapersCreative WritingScandinaviansTerm Paper Author:George R. R. Martin
“I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.” IfsMenShouldLooksShowsBeautifulHateTermFiguresArmsGayShapesI HateLegsBeautiful ThingsCandyGay MenHer Beauty Author:Bruce Forsyth
“Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.” WayLooksTermRunnersBladesInfluentialBlade Runner Author:Charlize Theron
“You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.” KnowsGivingLooksWholeWould BeRunningPoliticsTermPartySolutionsEmsGood Friend Author:Will Rogers
“I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.” IfsThinkingNeedsHumansLooksLongEarthUniverseTermSpaceRacePlanetsHuman RaceLong TermHorizonInwardPlanet Earth Author:Stephen Hawking
“My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.” GivingLooksWholeTermAlivePaintingAmbitionMarkSurfaceConstructsIntervalsMy Ambition Author:Andrew Forge
“The exponential rewards you receive as a reaction to the service that you give is phenomenal. If everybody understood that you get back in spades what you put in in terms of service, not only will everybody’s lives be more fulfilling – I mean can you imagine a society look like that? I’m Bill Courtney and I share hope.” IfsGivingLooksMeanLife IsTermImagineShareUnderstoodBillsRewardsReactionsGet BackFulfillingPhenomenalSpadesCourtney Author:Bill Courtney