John Crosbie Quotes & Sayings

The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of sets but functions between sets. This can be done by using the language of categories and universal constructions. — Saunders Mac Lane

The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country. — Ronald Reagan

If I'm slimmer, I feel better about myself, but I don't lose weight for anybody else or for a magazine. — Lucy Davis

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool. — Arthur Keith

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. — Benjamin Franklin

When some early Tom Waits demos were released against his wishes in the early 1990s, he is supposed to have said: 'Demo tapes are like baby pictures, everybody's got them, you just don't want them passed around. — Kirk Lake

For me, life has always been the storm. The storm and watching from the window for the thing that could stop it, even if my watching was only with my mind's eye locked on the window of my imagination. — Sarah Pinborough

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I pray as much as possible. — Tinie Tempah

Some may see a hopeless end, but as believers we rejoice in an endless hope. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective. — Adrian Younge