Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Thomas F. Wilson

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

Raymond Smullyan

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

Lord Kelvin

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Lord Kelvin

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Hermann Weyl

The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.

Hermann Weyl

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Hermann Weyl

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

Graydon Carter

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

Matt Young

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

Derrick Bell

I live to harass white folks.

Dennis Prager

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

Brad Dancer

Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great environment for college tennis and I am really proud of the way our guys competed tonight.

Norm Johnson

What prompted it was concern that students knew that they are supported in the college. With all that happened, students have wondered where they fit. We wanted them to know that providing them a supportive, nurturing environment is a top priority.

Brandon Hoyte

We might have more people at the pep rally than some colleges have at their stadiums for games.

Thomas E. Mann

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Stephen Hawking

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Shakira

Breastfeeding has been one of the best experiences of my life. I love it! I can't stop! I think I'm going to breastfeed him until he goes to college! I'm hooked!

Arthur Travers

We've never seen him in here before Saturday night.

Dalai Lama

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Dalai Lama

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!

Mason Cooley

Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

Jack Kerouac

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

Francois Rabelais

A bellyful is a bellyful.

Alan Cranston

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

David Johansen

I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.