Elisha Gray famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

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