Christopher Cockerell quotes

“But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.”
-- Christopher Cockerell

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“The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.”
-- Christopher Cockerell

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“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”

“It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.”

“I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.”

“If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.”

Source : Aga Khan IV's address to the Tutzing Evangelical Academy Upon Receiving the "Tolerance" Award in Tutzing, Germany, May 20, 2006.

“Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.”

“The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers

“Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.”

“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”

“I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.”