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.

Bertrand Russell

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.

Reggie Evans

That was all (garbage) because all them young guys, they play (center). I play (power forward). Do the math on that. That was just more (garbage).

Honore de Balzac

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

Robert Toth

I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

Winston Churchill

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Winston Churchill

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

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.

Euripides

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Christopher Hitchens

A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

Christina Aguilera

You’ve got me feeling like you’re that something I’ve been 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

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.