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.

Isaac Newton

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Jerry McNerney

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

Galileo Galilei

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

Freeman Dyson

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Alfred Kazin

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Dorothy Dunnett

If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

Danny Elfman

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

Merle Haggard

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

Dan Burke

I think if somebody doesn't, they're missing the boat. I'm not an expert, but I've been around long enough to know that. Mike's the kind of guy, you've got to see him on film and you've got to watch him play. It's as simple as that.

Dennis Wolff

We were able to get out in transition and get some quick baskets. I have always said missing shots can be contagious, but today making them was contagious.

Janet Fitch

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

Diana Vreeland

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Blake Mycoskie

The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.

Donald Hall

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Craig Newmark

Getting out of the way is really important.

Daniel Pennac

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

Dylan Moran

I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial.

Allan Ray

Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important.

Allan Bloom

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Andrea Bocelli

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.