English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Eli Whitney Quotes

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Eli Whitney

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form. Ivan Reitman
Douglas Sirk quote: "In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics -..."
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. Douglas Sirk
And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper? C. S. Lewis
Kathy Acker quote: "And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I..."
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. Kathy Acker
Aubrey de Vere quote: "Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone."
Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. Aubrey de Vere
Laurie Anderson quote: "and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause..."
and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me Laurie Anderson
It was the dream itself enchanted me:Character isolated by a deedTo engross the present and dominate memory.Players and painted stage took all my love,And not those things that they were emblems of.[from "The Circus Animals' Desertion"] William Butler Yeats
Booth Tarkington quote: "Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough."
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. Booth Tarkington
Allen Ginsberg quote: "To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard."
To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard. Allen Ginsberg
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. Ray Bradbury
I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread. Gareth Gates
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. Jorge Luis Borges
William Standish Knowles quote: "I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I..."
I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford. William Standish Knowles
Anastacia quote: "I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that."
I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that. Anastacia
...the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out. Walker Percy