“ Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can single-handedly move the world. ”
- Archimedes- Copy
- 174
“ Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. ”
- Collis P. Huntington- Copy
- 1.7K
“ After college, I went to London to record with Jimmy Webb on a project. ”
- Ringo Starr- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The heroism of the role,... was playing up the vulnerability of the role, and that was all Jimmy. ”
- James Caan- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down. ”
- Collis P. Huntington- Copy
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“ Leverage is everything, — was what I used to say; — don't begin to pry till you have got the long arm on your side. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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“ Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions. ”
- Bill Owens- Copy
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“ Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. ”
- Thomas J. Watson- Copy
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“ When I first started working, it was a little bit like that. They said, Come be a writer, but we'll find a place for you to perform somehow. Initially, I wasn't that helpful as a writer. Because, if you tell me what the bit is, I can come up with jokes for it… ”
- Andy Richter- Copy
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“ He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. ”
- Alexandre Dumas- Copy
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