Arithmeticians Quotes & Sayings

You always apologize for things you don't know. You should stop. — Claudia Gray

It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away. — Annie Dillard

People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change. — Mary Caroline Richards

The founders of modern Burma believed that they could guarantee prosperity and happiness by correctly choosing the moment for the rebirth of our country. They consulted astrologists and fortune-tellers, men of impeccable behaviour and uncontested wisdom, who were devout Buddhists to boot. Acting on the advice of these holy arithmeticians, they declared independence on the fourth of January in the year 1948, at twenty past four in the morning. Every year since then, we have commemorated that happy occasion on that day at that same impossible hour - in the full awareness that independence has caused more misfortune than all of the oppression and exploitation of the entire colonial period put together. — Karel Glastra Van Loon

Rufus Wainwright is my go-to for any kind of emotion. He's got songs for all of it. — Drake Bell

Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place. — Sam Altman

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. — Elton John

And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers. — Walter Scott

I tried to figure out if I felt calmer with a blanket over my head. No I did not was the answer. — Jenny Offill

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own. — Charles Dickens

[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.' — W. W. Rouse Ball