Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Charles Dickens

Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Joseph Farrell

Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,

David Mitchell

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

Dave Barry

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

Dave Barry

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

Dave Barry

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

Dave Barry

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

David Quammen

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Art Alexakis

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Anthony Storr

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Bill Bryson

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Bill Burton

There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

Bill Burr

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Bertrand Russell

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Bertrand Russell

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

Nita Ambani

We are very happy to have Sachin as the Mumbai Indians Icon. I am sure the youngsters in the team will be delighted to have him around for guidance, and so would be the Mumbai Indians fans.

Catullus

My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight

Bertrand Russell

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Charles R. Swindoll

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

Samuel Pepys

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Samuel Pepys

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Joe Cole

We were starting to get nervous, so I was delighted to score. It gave us the lift we needed,

Tommy Jackson

We have been waiting a long time to play in France, and we're delighted to be invited to the festival. It will be a great start to what promises to be a good tour for the band.

Fawaz Gerges

Middle East rulers are delighted at the prospect of a less demanding stance from the American government.