A Quote by Burt Rutan

Everything looks nonsensical before it works.

Burt Rutan

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Before Everything Looks Nonsensical Works

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Burt Rutan
American - Scientist
Born: June 17, 1943

I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.

Amy Hempel

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

Janine di Giovanni

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.

A.J. Ayer

I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.

Chris Cunningham

All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's "energy" used in a nonsensical way-don't get me started!

Stephen Fry

See that I am God. See that I am in everything. See that I do everything. See that I have never stopped ordering my works, nor ever shall, eternally. See that I lead everything on to the conclusion I ordained for it before time began, by the same power, wisdom and love with which I made it. How can anything be amiss?

Julian of Norwich

Peace before everything, God before anything, Love before anything, real before everything, Home before any place, shoot before anything, Style and state radiate, Love Power slay the hate.

Mos Def

When you have a beanpole body, everything looks cute. Like Alexa Chung. I like her style, but she's really tall and skinny, so everything looks good on her.

Kirsten Dunst

A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.

Sara Zarr

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

Harper Lee

Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.

Lenny Kravitz

This isn't the end, and a beginning looks different. This is the moment in between, when everything still looks possible.

Zoran Drvenkar

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

John Deacon

What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realize I have spent whole days before this ink stone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head.