Graciela Montes Quotes & Sayings

Parametric equations express the coordinates of the points of a curve as functions of a variable, called a parameter. They make it easy to draw curves because you can just plug parameters into equations to produce a curve. — Mahesh Venkitachalam

Selling pot allowed me to get through college and make enough money to start off in comedy. — Bill Maher

Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time. — Marisha Pessl

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men. — Vivienne Westwood

know the pleasure of total surrender. You've fantasized about — Roxy Sloane

I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind. — Michael Shannon

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. — Marilyn Monroe

And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world ... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark ... " — Dante Alighieri

Women never dress without thought. — Karen Hawkins

We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem. get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called "paprika hendl," and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians. — Bram Stoker

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price. — E.F. Schumacher

I think the riding uniform has always been so classic, with the britches and the blazers. — Jessica Springsteen

So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray. — Oscar Wilde

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. — John McCain

Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely. — Warren Buffett