Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Brenda Ueland

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Jane Hirshfield

The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

Austin Mahone

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Demi Lovato

My all time favorite band is Paramore and she's basically one of the reasons I was inspired... umm, well Hayley Williams from Paramore was one of the basic reasons I wanted to go rock. I saw the band live and they're great together and they write incredible music and also I like a lot of older bands. I like Motley Crue a lot and who else, I've got a lot of favorite bands but those are pretty much the main ones.

Dan Auerbach

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.

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.

Lord Kelvin

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Lord Kelvin

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Hermann Weyl

The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.

Hermann Weyl

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Hermann Weyl

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

Graydon Carter

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

Matt Young

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

Derrick Bell

I live to harass white folks.

Dennis Prager

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

Brad Dancer

Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great environment for college tennis and I am really proud of the way our guys competed tonight.

Norm Johnson

What prompted it was concern that students knew that they are supported in the college. With all that happened, students have wondered where they fit. We wanted them to know that providing them a supportive, nurturing environment is a top priority.

Brandon Hoyte

We might have more people at the pep rally than some colleges have at their stadiums for games.

Thomas E. Mann

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Stephen Hawking

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Shakira

Breastfeeding has been one of the best experiences of my life. I love it! I can't stop! I think I'm going to breastfeed him until he goes to college! I'm hooked!