James Glaisher Quotes & Sayings

Do you know that there's a halfway world between each ending and each new beginning? It's called the hurting time, Jean Perdu. It's a bog; it's where your dreams and worries and forgotten plans gather. Your steps are heavier during that time. Don't underestimate the transition, Jeanno, between farewell and new departure. Give yourself the time you need. Some thresholds are too wide to be taken in one stride. — Nina George

[Lockyer] ... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature.
[Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.] — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not. — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent. — Lexa Doig

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. — Oliver Cromwell

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects. — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

To give life...is to know what's worth fighting for. And what's love. — Jesmyn Ward

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity. — Louis Gossett Jr.

Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance. — John Breaux