Algebraically Closed Quotes & Sayings

I play the fiddle ... I'm not much to listen to yet, but we got no mice in our house. — Annie Proulx

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs. — William E. Simon

Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house. — Alonso Duralde

Matthew's story of the resurrection emphasizes typically Matthean themes, and so on. But this is like what you get when different artists paint portraits of the same person. This painting is certainly a Rembrandt; that is indubitably a Holbein. The touch of the individual artist is unmistakable. And yet the sitter is fully recognizable. The artists have not changed the color of her hair, the shape of his nose, the particular half smile. And when we ask why such stories, so different in many ways and yet so interestingly consistent in these and other features, could have come into existence so early, all the early Christians give the obvious answer: something like this is what happened, even though it was hard to describe at the time and remains mind-boggling thereafter. — N. T. Wright

Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most pretentious, is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste. — Tom Lehrer

Oh Ireland my first and only love
Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove! — James Joyce

I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them. — Bob Goff

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom. — Willie Stargell

That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard. — Susie Finkbeiner

Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold. — Frank Zappa

Why hadn't they built a lot of little Ringworlds instead? — Larry Niven

Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism. — Veronica Hollinger

As if ripping from the depths of the earth the knotted roots of a rare tree, that's how I write to you, and those roots as if they were powerful tentacles like voluminous naked bodies of strong women entwined by serpents and by carnal desires for fulfillment, and all this is the prayer of a black mass, and a creeping plea for amen: because the bad is unprotected and needs the approval of God: that is creation. — Clarice Lispector

Natan Ketilsson fetched his wife from heaven's gate. — Hannah Kent