Contorting Positions Quotes & Sayings

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. — William Wordsworth

You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor. — Satya Bhabha

Somewhere between poetry and science, somewhere between heaven and earth, clairaudience is born. Clairaudience is the sweetest mystery any human being could ever experience. Fortunately, it is the most contagious, too. Most, if not all, of my students walk away with some level of clairaudience after spending three hours in one of my workshops. — Amelia Kinkade

The arrogance of these people! — Soheir Khashoggi

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player. — Jim Leyland

Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head. — Amy Chua

Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun. — Martin Chemnitz

I can well imagine making acquisitions so long as these are complementary to Puma and move it forward. — Jochen Zeitz

Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality. — Peter Lindbergh

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity. — Edward Dmytryk

Once more I struck out into the ocean of space, heading for another near star. Once more I was disappointed. — Olaf Stapledon