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“I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!”
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“Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.”
Source : The Times, London, June 30, 1828.
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“It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.”
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“If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.”
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“One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.”
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“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.”
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“I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.”
Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “The Day I Killed James”, p.204, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that theyre complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better to know that they can rise above that and make something great.”
Source : "Elizabeth Peyton" by Jarvis Cocker, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008. 
