Lewittes Furniture Quotes & Sayings

In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.

{Explaining her use of a male pseudonym in a letter to Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1807} — Sophie Germain

We're doing some very exciting, bold things, pioneering content on mobile and for broadband, ... My vision is to say, as we take the strategy forward, we are doing it to deliver public remit. We're thinking less and less about C4 and more about the brand family. — Tim Duncan

Visitors are informed, but what do they feel? I can't find the warmth of Versailles in such blandness, and I don't think tourist come here in search of information at all. The bus-loads of Japanese tourists and honest grandmothers don't visit the Queen's bedroom to learn about the particular type of canopy bed she slept in or the sort of wood it is made from; they come to relive a moment in the queen's life. — Alain Baraton

I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful. — Ian Astbury

God didn't have time to create a nobody ... — Mary Kay Ash

We are free to change the world and start something new in it. — Hannah Arendt

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in. — Ellen Goodman

I guess he's used to suspicious people with crappy tempers. Or maybe I've never seemed as normal as I thought. — Holly Black

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. — John Lennon

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world. — Alan Lightman

Tears are the silent language of grief — Voltaire

I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent. — Alice Eve

Were ready for him! — Ben M. Baglio