James Lighthill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly ...

  • Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.

  • The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.

  • To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

  • But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that.

  • I live in heels. Give me a pair of flip-flops and I'll trip all over myself.

  • When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.

  • Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.

  • Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

  • An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.