Jianyun Zhang Quotes & Sayings

Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them. — Mal Peet

There is a season for everything under the sun - even when we can't see the sun. — Jared Brock

I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can't see where we are going! — R.J. Palacio

Thoughts are real', he said. 'Words are real. Everything human is real, and sometimes we know things before they happen, even if we aren't aware of it. We live in the present, but the future is inside us at every moment. Maybe that's what writing is all about, Sid. Not recording events from the past, but making things happen in the future'. — Paul Auster

Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut. — Fred Allen

The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor. — Emilio Ambasz

Turning into a vampire is like signing a supernatural contract and like any contract, there are clauses.
And there is the fine print. — Cyma Rizwaan Khan

When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is. — Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Reactionary nostalgia for the proprieties of Victorian England is unfortunate, like a whore looking under the bed for her virginity. — Bruce Robinson

Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The era of Reconstruction and then the subsequent dismantling of Reconstruction sent us in a tailspin. Then we had the Civil Rights movement. Now we have our first non-white president. We have a pattern of moving apart and then coming back together throughout the history of this country. Each time, we come closer. — Wynton Marsalis

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane. — Bob Dylan

From the stars we came, and to the stars we return. — Jack Campbell

Creativity is an endless source that comes from above, from the most high source of creation[God]. — Euginia Herlihy

Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important ... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time. — Sophus Lie

Mrs. P.? Oh no. She's the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if there's one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, it's the availability of quality staff ... The words died away on my lips: once again I found myself trailing off in the stare of those unblinking eyes. This fellow was like some kind of after-dinner black hole. My anxiety began to mount again. — Paul Murray