Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernst Mach

Strange as it may seem, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought, and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All mathematics is tautology.

Gabriel Marcel

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Lord Kelvin

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Henri Poincare

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Gustave Flaubert

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

John Maynard Smith

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Eric Steinbach

He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Sheldon Brown

He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.

Yoandy Garlobo

We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .

Trevor Doughty

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

Larry Eustachy

We made the plays down the stretch. I thought it was the most mentally tough we played down the stretch all year.

Jodie King

I am disappointed in how we played. I really think it's a mental block. We were so keyed up, we had a letdown.

Rachel Hall

He teaches me to become mentally prepared and tells me to work hard.

Shane Mosley

He is making a big mental mistake by trying to look past me trying to get to Oscar.

Ben Williams

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Darren Pang

He wasn't being relied upon to do the things that he always did. He wasn't on the power play. Sure, he was frustrated.

Don Perkins

He was exceptional when he had to be. He made really big saves for us on some of their power plays.

Robert Orben

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Emo Philips

I'm not a Republican... but I am saving up to be one.

Marshall Brickman

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

Patrick Ness

Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Mike Pence

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts

John Kenneth Galbraith

The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.

Katy Perry

I'm kinda saving myself for Miley Cyrus.

Rainbow Rowell

If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Renny Harlin

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Rose Macaulay

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Rick Riordan

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

William Faulkner

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Werner Herzog

You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.