Robert Hanbury Brown quotes

“I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to "see" things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses. It gave me the same thrill that I felt in the early days of radio when I first heard a voice coming out of a horn...”
-- Robert Hanbury Brown

#Distance Quotes #Tired Quotes #Echoes Quotes

“The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.”

“Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I'd loved him as my everything, long after I'd begun to love him as a friend.”

“[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.' 'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.”

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

Source : Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.463, Oxford University Press

“Right now I am full of greed and vanity, so I cannot live with you like before. But may be we can meet like this. I think just being together and talking would be nice. But when we grow old, when greed and vanity will be completely gone, when I will be tired of singing can I return to that place too?”

“Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.”

Source : Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet

“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.”

“I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.”

“You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty”

“Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.”