Andrew Williams Quotations

With this method, we let the gravity of a dim, intervening star act as a giant natural telescope for us, magnifying a more distant star, which then temporarily looks brighter.

We decided we would offer lotteries to those charities on the basis that we would give them as many as was needed as long as it didn't exceed their voluntary income, because that sudden influx of funds would create problems for them.

I booked a hostel months ago. When I got here I thought I'd try to find a hotel, the only thing I found was in a four-star hotel for 690 euros ($817) a night, four-times their normal rate.

We?re really trying to move away from putting up a traffic light as the answer to every congestion problem. Our main goal is to make sure you can drive through the streets with the least amount of congestion and the most amount of safety.

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will.

It's possible to love without sacrificing-but who would notice? For love is demonstrated only through sacrifice-without it, love is invisible.

The key to contentedness is not the absence of work; neither is it to cap each day with the witless abandon of hollow entertainment, but to fill your days with that which fills your life with meaning.

The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

In the end, failing to plan and planning to fail aren't so different.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

The only substances able to form a planet of that size, at that temperature, are rock and ice.