Lecocq La Quotes & Sayings

I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have a lot of critics, or it means that you haven't done anything. I never really bothered much and I don't care. — Benedetta Tagliabue

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. [Fermat's] Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this. — Andrew John Wiles

Richard Grierson smiles, but it's an inward-pointing smile, a smile of someone folding himself back up for storage in the colorful corners of his own crayon fantasies. She looks at the books, their titles hazy with a thin film of sawdust, and she looks at the toy ships built for imaginary journeys along the red dotted lines of a child's map, and she looks at the exotic pictures in the books still open flat before her, and she understands that these places are just places of the mind, and she wants to be able to exalt his wild dreams and imaginings along with her own - but there's something about them that make them feel like the saddest thing she's ever seen. — Alden Bell

I will consider it. - Endymion, Princess Sellene — Sarah J. Maas

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it. — Gore Vidal

Your thoughts shape and mold the energy around you. You hold the power of creation in every thought. — William Buhlman

Sometimes you know you have something, but your subconscious doesn't realize it. That is when you just need to get used to life's little unexpected occurances. — Svetlana Sonday

Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them. — Kameron Hurley

Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting? — Jane Yolen