Frustum Quotes & Sayings

[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do. — Karl Popper

Held on to me like I was a baby. And she kept crying. So many tears. My clothes and hair were soaked with her tears. It was, like, my mother had given me a grief shower, you know? Like she'd baptized me with her pain. — Sherman Alexie

I've been in the danger zone — Randy Savage

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you. — Chuck Palahniuk

Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat. — Tom Colicchio

He raised an eyebrow, which instantly made Clary jealous. She'd always wanted to be able to do that. — Cassandra Clare

Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone. — Stanislaw Lem

Poor man! You have many burdens on you: The burdens of your religion, of your culture, of your ignorance, of your oppressive government! Find a wild horse and watch it! You will see what is to be unburdened and free! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it. — Shirley Maclaine

If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its impact would have been far less. For this sort of reason Stent had argued that a scientific discovery is more akin to a work of art than is generally admitted. Style, he argues, is as important as content. I am not completely convinced by this argument, at least in this case. — Francis Crick

Gathering, analyzing, sorting, and storing information - these functions and more the mind can perform so automatically, skillfully, and effortlessly that it makes the most sophisticated computer look like a plastic toy by comparison. But it can do infinitely more. To use the mind as it's all too commonly used, on the kinds of things that it's usually used on, is about as inefficient and inappropriate as using a magic sword to open up a can of beans. The power of a clear mind is beyond description. But it can be attained by anyone who can appreciate and utilize the value of Nothing. — Benjamin Hoff

Our illness is often our healing. — Mooji

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. — Bill Gates

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. — Elihu Root