Besicovitch Quotes & Sayings

He wanted Eden, and he wanted Pinkie, but mostly he wanted Eden, because together they could make their own Pinkie. — Suzanne Brockmann

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music. — Langdon Brown Gilkey

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor. — Simon Schama

The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue. — Freeman Dyson

I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in 20 minutes. So did I write for six hours and 20 minutes, or just 20 minutes? I used to write absolutely every day, except for days when I had to travel or something. — Chuck Klosterman

Was when Beverly screamed, a high-pitched sound in the stillness. The vaulted dome overhead picked it up, and the echoes were like the laughter of banshees, — Stephen King

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop. — Gucci Mane

Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time. — Jose Antonio Bowen

For the first time in history, the typical American now spends more years single than married. What — Aziz Ansari

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger. — Tina Turner

Taking a deep breath that smelled of rain, she was poised to move when a hand clasped her elbow. Memories of another hand grabbing her sent panic shooting through her veins.
She swung around.
"Whoa. You okay?" Lucas lightened his clasp around her arm.
Kylie caught her breath and stared up at the werewolf's blue eyes. "Yeah. You just ... surprised me. You need to whistle when you come up on me. — C.C. Hunter

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC. — Frederick W. Smith

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea. — Mary J. Blige

What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up. — Niall Ferguson

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. — Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly
I know not which is the greater ... — Amelia Barr