Alistar Top Quotes & Sayings

The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch, with these narrative arguments that explain it. So what I want to do with this book is open up this world of mathematical reality, the creatures that we build there, the questions that we ask there, the ways in which we poke and prod (known as problems), and how we can possibly craft these elegant reason-poems. — Paul Lockhart

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record. — Dave Grohl

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships. — Patricia Heaton

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already. — Jean De La Bruyere

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes. — Mordecai Richler

Pain - expands the Time - / Ages coil within / The minute Circumference / Of a single Brain - / Pain contracts - the Time - / Occupied with Shot / Gamuts of Eternities / Are as they were not - — Emily Dickinson

Being positive all the time is such a catchy idea, and it's easy to preach. I guess that's why it is popular. But life reveals itself in successions of up's and down's and if you plan to be positive all the time you will definitely fail. — Gudjon Bergmann

Stay happy and healthy. Take time to read a good book and live your dreams. I am and loving it! — Becky Wilde

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently
what is it? Twenty-six, something like that?
you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem. — Donald Rumsfeld

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. — Frederik Pohl

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad. — Ruby Wax

When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism. — Tansy Rayner Roberts