Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything. K. Eric Drexler American Scientist More K. Eric Drexler Quotes 1
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. George Washington American President More George Washington Quotes 1
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. Alan Watts English Philosopher More Alan Watts Quotes 1
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. Richard Dooling American Novelist More Richard Dooling Quotes 0
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them. Ethel Waters American Musician More Ethel Waters Quotes 0
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments. Tommy Shaw American Musician More Tommy Shaw Quotes 0
I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass. Billy Sheehan American Musician More Billy Sheehan Quotes 0
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. Tina Weymouth American Musician More Tina Weymouth Quotes 0
My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order! Cassandra Wilson American Musician More Cassandra Wilson Quotes 0
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. Colin Wilson English Writer More Colin Wilson Quotes 0
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments. Bernie Worrell American Musician More Bernie Worrell Quotes 0
There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft. Cass Sunstein American Lawyer More Cass Sunstein Quotes 0
Texas Instruments reaffirmed that some of the fears in the marketplace were unfounded. Albert Lin More Albert Lin Quotes 0
We swap around instruments from time to time and try other variations. The real trick to making a good record is finding out the things that aren't good and getting rid of them. Alex Kapranos More Alex Kapranos Quotes 0
All the instruments are working just fine, and there's a significant amount of fuel. We can do any burn we want to head it toward any target we want. Andrew Dantzler More Andrew Dantzler Quotes 0
I'm very interested in the color of sound. And I'm very interested in the juxtaposition of different things, ethnic instruments juxtaposed with symphonic instruments, and I'm interested in the ancient and the modern. I don't know why, but it has always been something that's fascinated me, from when I first heard a symphony orchestra I wanted to know how those sounds were made. Anne Dudley More Anne Dudley Quotes 0
All the subsystems and instruments from a wide range of suppliers are tested separately, but now we are beginning the vital stage of assembling them together and testing how they will function with each other. Barry Goldstein More Barry Goldstein Quotes 0
So here we are laughing about this one thing as we pick up instruments to start practice, and it can't help but carry over into what you do for first 30 minutes of making noise. We were into all that when we started putting down basic tracks for this recording, and it just went from there. Bill Ardison More Bill Ardison Quotes 0
Today we act to hold faceless companies accountable -- companies that create instruments of destruction -- for their failure to make products safer and to warn of their inherent dangers. Bill Campbell More Bill Campbell Quotes 0
These devices can disrupt normal operations of key cockpit instruments, especially Global Positioning System receivers, which are increasingly vital for safe landings. Bill Strauss More Bill Strauss Quotes 0
If you're president of Texas Instruments and you go into your board of directors and say, 'Next year, we're just going to keep our market share,' you're out, you're fired. Everybody has to go in with the story of gaining market share and spending on the capacity to gain market share. Of course, it all just doesn't add up. Bill McClean More Bill McClean Quotes 0
We are proud to announce National Instruments as a 'Company of the Year -- Small/Medium' finalist for the ACE Awards. The EE Times judging panel chose NI as a top five contender in a very competitive category of over 35 submissions. Brian Fuller More Brian Fuller Quotes 0
After the group got real popular, Fender asked us to endorse their instruments. I think the deal was they'd give them to you then you'd let them print ads and stuff like that. This was around 1962. Carl Wilson More Carl Wilson Quotes 0