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# Robert Henry Thurston

Robert Henry Thurston (October 25, 1839 – October 25, 1903) was an American engineer, and the first Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.

## Quotes

* The wonderful progress of the present century is, in very great degree, due to the invention and improvement of the steam-engine.
** Robert Henry Thurston, "The Growth of the Steam Engine," in: Popular Science, Nov 1877, p. 11
* Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.
** Robert Henry Thurston, "The Growth of the Steam Engine," in: Popular Science, Nov 1877, p. 11
* The first machine of Papin was very similar to the gunpowder-engine... of Huyghens. In place of gunpowder, a small quantity of water is placed at the bottom of the cylinder, A; a fire is built beneath it, "the bottom being made of very thin metal," and the steam formed soon raises the piston, B, to the top where a latch, E, engaging a notch in latch engaging the piston rod, H, holds it up until it is desired that it shall drop. The fire being removed, the steam condenses, and a vacuum is formed below the piston, and the latch, E, being disengaged, the piston is driven down by the superincumbent atmosphere and raises the weight which has been, meantime, attached to a rope... passing from the piston rod over pulleys... The machine had a cylinder two and a half inches in diameter, and raised 60 pounds once a minute; and Papin calculated that a machine of a little more than two feet diameter of cylinder and of four feet stroke would raise 8,000 pounds four feet per minute—i.e., that it would yield about one horse-power.
** Robert Henry Thurston, A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine (1878) Parts 1-2, pp. 50-51
# Robert Hayden

Robert Earl Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980), born Asa Bundy Sheffey, was an American poet, essayist, and educator. From 1976 to 1978, Hayden was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the position which in 1985 became the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

## Quotes

* Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
** Those Winter Sundays (lines 1-5), from Collected Poems (1985)
* What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?
** Those Winter Sundays (lines 13-14)
* Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.
** Middle Passage (lines 15-16), from Collected Poems (1985)
* This man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world where none is lonely, none hunted, alien, this man, superb in love and logic, this man shall be remembered.
** Frederick Douglass (lines 7-11), from Collected Poems (1985)
* Oh who and oh who will sing Jesus down to help with struggling and doing without and being colored all through blue Monday? Till way next Sunday?
** Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday (lines 10-13), from Collected Poems (1985)

## Quotes about Robert Hayden

* right now I’m re-reading and re-reading Robert Hayden’s poems, which are absolutely beautiful and brilliant.
** Ross Gay interview quoted here
* When I read Jefferson's disparagement of Wheatley, it felt like he had been disparaging the entire lineage of Black poets who would follow her, myself included, and I saw a man who had not had a clear understanding of what love is. When Robert Hayden gave us the ballads to remember how captured Africans survived the Middle Passage and arrived on these shores, it was an act of love...
** Clint Smith (writer), How the Word is Passed (2021)

## External links

* Overview of Robert Hayden's life and poetry from XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia's Introduction to Poetry
* Those Winter Sundays hermeneusis by ex-Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
* Academy of American Poets listing
* Robert Hayden: His Day Is Now! A Defense Of Hayden's Verse
* Review of The Collected Poems of Robert Hayden
* About Hayden's Life And Career
* Online Selection of Poems
* Audio of Hayden's poem Soledad
* "On 'Middle Passage"": excerpts of essays analyzing Haydon's deeply ironic "anti-epic"
# Robert Henryson

Robert Henryson or Robert Henderson (c. 1430 – c. 1490) was a Scottish Chaucerian poet or makar, best known for his Morall Fabillis and The Testament of Cresseid.

## Quotes

* For to be yong I wald not, for my wis Off all this warld to mak me lord et king: The more of age the nerar hevynnis blis.
** "The Praise of Age", line 6
* The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.
** "Robene and Makyne", line 91.

### Morall Fabillis

* The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch, Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill. Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch, And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill.
** Line 15
* Ane Bow that is ay bent Worthis unsmart, and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent, In ernistfull thochtis, and in studying.
** Line 22.
* Quha hes aneuch, of na mair hes he neid.
** Line 375.
* Best thing in eird, thairfoir, I say, for me, Is blyithnes in hart, with small possessioun.
** Line 387.

### The Testament of Cresseid

* In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte.
** Line 270.
* Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind Inflat in uther mennis eiris.
** Line 461.
* Than upon him scho kest up baith hir Ene, And with ane blenk it come into his thocht, That he sumtime hir face befoir had sene. Bot scho was in sic plye he knew hir nocht, Yit than hir luik into his mynd it brocht The sweit visage and amorous blenking Of fair Cresseid sumtyme his awin darling.
** Line 498.
* Lovers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to have trew lufe agane.
** Line 561.

## Criticism

* Of Henryson as of Chaucer it can be said that the picturesque detail owes its effectiveness to the solidity and seriousness of what it grows from. Henryson's Fables (like La Fontaine’s – they deserve the comparison) do more than present types of human beings in animal guises and animals comically behaving like human beings; they build up a total and consistent society, both rendered and criticized.
** Patrick Cruttwell, in Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) p. 326.
* His background is not simply the Abbey School of Dunfermline (where he is reputed to have been a schoolmaster), but the surrounding Scottish countryside and community to which he belonged. His wisdom – and his poems are very wise about life – evidently came from his having lived long and profoundly as a member of that whole Scottish community.
** John Speirs, in Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) p. 85.
* Henryson's greatness is most plainly to be seen in the range of general principles and ideas which informs his poetry and which allows it to encompass tragedy and comedy alike. He is the most Shakespearian of the early Scottish poets.
** John MacQueen, in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography vol. 26, s. n. Henryson, Robert.

## External links

* Selected works of Robert Henryson
# Robert Henri

Robert Henri (June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School of American realism and an organizer of the group known as "The Eight," a loose association of artists who protested the restrictive exhibition practices of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design.

## Quotations

* "It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him."
* "Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience."
* "Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you."
* "Different men are moved or left cold by lines according to the difference in their natures. What moves you is beautiful to you."
* "There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land."
* Robert Henri's open letter to the Art Students League:
   Thomas Eakins was a man of great character. He was a man of iron will and his will to paint and to carry out his life as he thought it should go. This he did. It cost him heavily but in his works we have the precious result of his independence, his generous heart and his big mind. Eakins was a deep student of life, and with a great love he studied humanity frankly. He was not afraid of what his study revealed to him. In the matter of ways and means of expression, the science of technique, he studied most profoundly, as only a great master would have the will to study. His vision was not touched by fashion. He struggled to apprehend the constructive force in nature and to employ in his works the principles found. His quality was honesty. "Integrity" is the word which seems best to fit him. Personally I consider him the greatest portrait painter America has produced.

## Quotes about Robert Henri

* The Masses marked, I have been told, the first appearance of "realism" in an American magazine. But I was ignorant of, and indifferent to, schools of art and literature. Of the new movement in art represented by John Sloan, George Bellows, and the other pupils of Robert Henri, I had never heard.
** Max Eastman "The Policy of The Masses: An Editor's Reflections"

## References

* ↑ The Craftsman, 2 October 1910 .
* ↑ Henri, Robert (2007) [1923], p. 285.
* ↑ Henri, Robert (2007). The Art Spirit. New York: Basic Books. pp. 84–85. ISBN 0-06-430138-9.
# Robert Henry Brom

Robert Henry Brom (September 18, 1938 – May 9, 2022) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Duluth and the Diocese of San Diego.

## Quotes

* The bishop proposes the teachings, and says what is inconsistent with those teachings. But in terms of follow-through, he can't mandate conformity. He can do no more than teach and propose, and call the people to enflesh these in their political decisions, regarding the social and political life of our country. It's up to the people to apply the guidelines and principles to the particular situation.
** Portrait of a Bishop : Brom Wins Support With New Style of Leadership (1991) Los Angeles Times
# Maggie Smith

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (28 December 1934 – 27 September 2024) was an English actress. With an extensive career in theatre, film, and television over seven decades. Smith also achieved the Triple Crown of Acting winning two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards. She received numerous accolades including five BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. She was particularly known for her wit in comedic roles.

## Quotes
### "You have to laugh" (2004)

    "You have to laugh", The Guardian (20 November 2004)
* I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
* I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen. I did Desdemona [at the National, opposite Olivier] with great discomfort and was terrified all the time. But then everyone was terrified of Larry.
* [On the attempted suicide of her husband, actor Robert Stephens, who was playing the lead in the film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) at the time] And after that it was just hopeless. We had two little boys. He didn't understand. I sure as hell didn't understand. It got worse and then it went on getting worse and worse. In the end it was destroying everybody. And he was having so many affairs. [Stephens saw doctors] I remember when he was diagnosed as hyper-manic asking what it meant and the doctor saying violent moods swings and indiscriminate sexual activity. And I thought "that about covers it really".
* It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
# Magic Johnson

Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. BORN August 14, 1959) is a former professional basketball player. He played with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA for all of his 13 seasons and has won five championships.

## Sourced

* I think sometimes we think, "Well, only gay people can get it; it's not going to happen to me", and here I am saying that it can happen to anybody.
** Johnson on who can get HIV, from his official announcement about living with HIV (7 November 1991)
* Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
** Then & Now: Magic Johnson
# Maggie Q

Margaret Denise Quigley (born May 22, 1979), professionally known as Maggie Q, is an American actress and model. She is known for starring in the action films Mission: Impossible III and Live Free or Die Hard and played the title role of the action-thriller series Nikita.

## Quotes

* [As a vegetarian] I feel better, I have more energy on and off the set, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that I’m doing something to help stop animal suffering.
** “Maggie Q’s Beautiful New Ads,” by PETA (29 September 2007).
* The leading cause of carbon emissions in the world is animal agriculture and no one is talking about it. This is the real issue that is driving climate change. … As a vegan I save 1,100 gallons of water a day. … If we are talking about a sustainability message, you cannot leave out the animal message – absolutely impossible. … We are looking at a world that is facing ultimate destruction if we don’t make better, smarter choices, and that starts with you. Every dollar you spend goes to feed a corporation that is either responsible or not responsible. … There are three things I want to make movies about: environmental problems, animals and human rights. Those are the three things I look out for all the time.
** “Hollywood actress Maggie Q on how becoming vegan can help save the planet,” interview with City Weekend (21 October 2017).
# Magi Gibson

Magi Gibson (born 1953) is a Scottish poet and children's author.

## Quotes

* Eleven years old my small world lost its roof When I was told the truth of who I was, Where I should remain. Don't let her play with us, a classmate said. Her father comes home filthy.
** From "My Father's Dungarees" (1985), as cited in Susan Dalgety "In Covid's hard times, we need the solace of poetry whether it's by Stormzy, Jackie Kay or the life-affirming Magi Gibson", The Scotsman (18 December 2018)
** According to Dalgety, Gibson's father was a chimney sweep.
# Maggy Corrêa

Maggy Corrêa is a Rwandan Swiss autobiographical writer. In her memoir Tutsie, etc. (1998) she recounts how she rescued her mother from the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi in July 1994;

## Quotes

* with or without the fec or without the sacred sacred fire.
** Maggy Corrêa said : (cross works , 12-1-2007 )
* I begun accepting the fate allotted to me when I encountered in Rwanda, the one with whom I was to share my life for 23 years and who became the father of my children. I was then aged 18 and had never left my homeland.
** born of a Portugese father and a Rwandan mother, said Maggy Corrêa (Aflit, 21 December 2012)
* A game of general knowledge about sexuality. Entertaining, informative and sensual.
** Maggy Corrêa said : (rts, 31 mai 1994)
# Peaches Geldof

Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof (13 March 1989 – 7 April 2014) was an English journalist, television presenter and model. She was married to Thomas Cohen.

## About

* She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.
** Bob Geldof, as quoted in The Jewish Chronicle (11 April 2014), p. 5
* It makes a lot of sense to me. She seems to me like a Jewish woman, the way she thinks and behaves.
** Thomas Cohen discussing her Judaism, as quoted in The Jewish Chronicle (11 April 2014), p. 5
# Pearl Bailey

Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer.

## Quotes

* You can taste a word.
** Quoted in Newsweek, 4 December 1967
* You never find yourself until you face the truth.
** Quoted in Criminal Minds Season 8, November 2012
* People see God every day. They just don't recognize Him.
** talking to a New York Times reporter in 1967
# Peadar Tóibín

Peadar Tóibín (19 June 1974 –) is an Irish politician who has served as Leader of Aontú since January 2019. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath West constituency since 2011. He previously served as Chair of the Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs from 2016 to 2018.

## Quotes

* My instinct would be if you are gathering votes and working for a political organisation that is doing disharm or going in a different direction from you, you really need to be making the decision as to whether you are in the wrong political organisation for you and if so, I would suggest people make that decision in the new year to come with us.
** Peadar Tóibín: 'Some in Sinn Féin are hurt and angry and are not talking to me at all' (January 12, 2019)
* The truth is respectful opposition is not the enemy, it’s an important part of a health a democracy.
** Peadar Tóibín to host Waterford meeting about new party (January 21, 2019)
# Pearl Farmer Richardson

Ellen Pearl Farmer Richardson (July 25, 1891 – May 9, 1980) was an American clubwoman and pacifist. She worked on the Speakers Research Committee of the United Nations, and represented the General Federation of Wonen's Clubs as an observer at the United Nations.

## Quotes

* I am a person who applies the United Nations to community life and daily living. It is not enough to hope that the United Nations succeeds. To make it work, people must do something about it.
** Pearl Farmer Richardson, quoted in "Speaker Says U. N. Goals Offer Guide to Community Life" The Wichita Eagle (February 3, 1954): 3.
* The charter of the U.N. is in reality an amplification of the admonition mankind was given centuries ago, 'Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.'
** Pearl Farmer Richardson, Your Community United Nations (American Book Company 1956).
** Quoted in Eleanor Roosevelt, "My Day" (January 10, 1957).
** The quoted passage includes a quote from the New Testament, specifically Matthew 7:12 (often known as the Golden Rule).
# Pearl Mackie

Pearl Mackie (born 29 May 1987) is a British actress. She is best known for playing Bill Potts in the long-running television series Doctor Who. Mackie is a graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her first major television role came in 2014, when she played Anne-Marie Frasier in BBC One soap opera Doctors.

## Quotes

* I've always been attracted to music, and women like Aretha Franklin, Beyonce, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Tina Turner showed the path, in a way. They're all tough women but not afraid to be vulnerable. They made me feel someone like me could do that.
** https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/quotes/pearl-mackie-i-ve-always-been-attracted-to
# Robert Quillen

Verni Robert Quillen (25 March 1887 – 9 December 1948) was an American humorist.

## Quotes

* Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
** As quoted in The School Day Begins : A Guide to Opening Exercises, Grades Kindergarten - 12 (1967) by Agnes Krarup
* He was a writer of paragraphs and short editorials. He always hoped to write something of permanent value, but the business of making a living took most of his time and he never got around to it. In his youth he felt an urge to reform the world, but during the latter years of his life he decided that he would be doing rather well if he kept himself out of jail. … When the last clod had fallen, workmen covered the grave with a granite slab bearing the inscription: "Submitted to the Publisher by Robert Quillen."
** Self-written "Obituary" (24 March 1932), published 16 years prior to his actual death, as quoted in The Voice of Small-Town America : The Selected Writings of Robert Quillen, 1920-1948 (2008) by John Hammond Moore, p. 181
* Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.
** Quoted by Alexander Woollcott in "The Sage of Fountain Inn," Cosmopolitan magazine (September 1933)
* Americanism: Using money you haven’t earned to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.
** Paragraphs by Robert Quillen, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 1928. (via Newspapers.com)
# Robert Powell

Robert Powell (born 1 June 1944) is an English actor.

## Quotes

* I have always been attracted to difficult work, there really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.
** Robert Powell on Jesus, marriage and the Belgian detective: 'My Poirot is my Poirot', Express (16 January 2014).
# Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born 1936) is an American actor and film director.

## Quotes by Robert Redford:

* I've always appreciated diversity. I believe that American culture is founded on diversity and for this reason it is still alive and inspiring. I grew up in what you might call an unfortunate part of Los Angeles, where there wasn't much to do but experience the differences, go to different places, and hear different stories.
** Qquoted in Dizionario degli attori: Gli attori del nostro tempo, edited by Gabriele Rifilato, Rai-Eri, Rome (2005) ISBN 8839712895)
* [On the Deepwater Horizon oil rig environmental disaster] The Gulf disaster is worse than a terrible oil leak. It’s the product of a failed energy policy that looked at profits before people and environment.
** Quoted in "Robert Redford vs. U.S. Energy Policy", ilpost.it (June 4, 2010).
* Sound and accurate journalism defends our democracy. It's one of the most effective weapons at our disposal to contain the power-hungry. I've always said that All the President's Men is a violent movie. No shots are fired, but words are used as if they were weapons.
* There was a time during a period of national crisis when politicians from both sides of the aisle put partisan politics aside to uncover the truth. There was a time when Democrats and Republicans united to navigate a peaceful ending to a corrupt and criminal presidency. There was a time when members of Congress placed defending our democracy above party interests for the greater good.
** "Robert Redford: 45 years after Watergate, the truth is again in danger", The Washington Post (March 31, 2017).

## Quotes about Robert Redford:

* I think he hates me a little, because after all, this year, the year of his professional "boom", there has been more talk about him by virtue of our flirtation than for his performances as an actor! (Barbra Streisand)
* Redford is a very good collaborator, a kind of alter ego for me: he was that young prince who was blond in appearance, but who had a much darker interior. It was clearly a metaphor for America. And most of the stories we've done together have become love movies, romantic movies. In my opinion, he was the ideal prototype of this kind of event. We never got tired of working together. We've always been somewhat demanding of each other, trying to get the most out of each of us, and we didn't waste time knowing what would work or not. It was a great advantage: we knew each other perfectly. (Sydney Pollack)