Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

H. G. Wells

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Carly Fiorina

Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

Errol Flynn

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

Ernest Renan

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

Frank Norris

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Christina Aguilera

It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.

Horace

That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Imagine--the whole world wired to Harry Cohn's ass!

Herman Melville

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Herman Melville

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

Herman Melville

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

Herman Melville

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

Herb Alpert

The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.

Herb Caen

When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

Henry David Thoreau

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

Henry David Thoreau

Oh, one world at a time!

Henry David Thoreau

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

Henry David Thoreau

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Jeremy Grantham

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

Jennifer Egan

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

Jeff Vandermeer

I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

Jeff Greenwald

Sharing a bit of yourself, opening a window into your own world, is a good place to begin.