Brahmagupta Biography Quotes & Sayings

Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be a remarkable student who did, since it took mathematicians a couple of thousand years to sort out the notion of a limit, and I think most of us who call ourselves professional mathematicians really only understand it when we start to teach the stuff, either in graduate school or beyond. — Keith Devlin

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there. — Kirsty Coventry

Public crucifixion is no fun. — Peter O'Toole

Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal. And that includes people in our minority community; that includes people who feel as though they don't have a chance to move up. — John Kasich

For me he (Tendulkar) is one of the greatest cricketers — Usain Bolt

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise. — Stephen Hopkins

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it ... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them. — Mark Twain

To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean. — Nirmala Srivastava

Rose had the sort of eyes that manage perfectly well with things close by, but entirely blur out things far away. Because of this even the brightest stars had only appeared as silvery smudges in the darkness. In all her life, Rose had never properly seen a star.
Tonight there was a sky full.
Rose looked up, and it was like walking into a dark room and someone switching on the universe. — Hilary McKay

Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove. — Tim McCarver

Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them. — Mary Karr

Paul Rudd is ripped. — Michael Douglas

I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the animation. — Steve Dildarian

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men. — Ellen Page

I understood finding the place you are born in an unbearable prison and wanting something completely different from what you are familiar with, knowing it represents a haven. — Jamaica Kincaid