Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Hyneman

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Jascha Heifetz

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

Blaise Pascal

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Ally Carter

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.

Albrecht Durer

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

David Foster Wallace

We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.

Amanda Palmer

There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.

Pete Madland

A wild guess, maybe 5 or 10 percent stay open all night.

Tim Raines

Now maybe they'll talk about us more than the Cubs,

John Talbot

The scanner's about the size of a toaster, maybe just a little longer,

Kiki Vandeweghe

That's interesting. Maybe it was a Freudian slip.

Benjamin Cardozo

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Jane Austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane Austen

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Brigitte Bardot

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Ashley Scott

Things were different when I was single though, and I'd go out all the time and dudes would do their thing. i don't really go out much now though.

Jamie Dimon

Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

Bobby Farrelly

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

Ben Harper

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

Anne Lamott

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Andy Richter

It's funny, because 'Arrested Development' is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called 'Quintuplets' for a season for Fox, and this was while 'Arrested Development' was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.

Sally Quinn

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

Stephen Spender

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.