Matematicent Quotes & Sayings

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over. — Scott Weiss

I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet. — Uwem Akpan

We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man's view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed. — Stephen Hawking

I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol. — Robb Walsh

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might? — William J. Murray

Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year. — Jack LaLanne

Sunny did not eat the wood, of course, but she chewed on it and pretended it was a carrot, or an apple, or a beef and cheese enchilada, all of which she loved. — Lemony Snicket

Lots of people hate my stuff. — Jim Crace

Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I've been thinkin' 'bout the meaning of resistance of a world beyond our own and suddenly the infinite and penitent began to look like home. — Jon Foreman

Seen from an aeroplane high in the air, even the most gigantic skyscraper is only a tall stone black, a mere sculptural form, not a real building in which people can live. But as the plane descends from the great heights there will be one moment when the buildings change character completely. Suddenly, they take on human scale, become houses for human beings like ourselves, not the tiny dolls observed from the heights. This strange tranformation takes place at the instant when the contours of the buildings begin to rise above the horizon so that we get a side view of them instead of looking down on them. The buildings pass into a new stage of existence, become architecture in place of neat toys
for architecture means shapes formed around man, formed to be lived in, not merely to be seen from outside. — Steen Eiler Rasmussen

Jesus never allowed himself to be defined by the political conflicts of his day, and neither should we. — Gregory A. Boyd

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me. — Eric McCormack

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves. — George Carlin

The only thing I've been concerned about is whether I could grow my heart thing enough to protect me from the harsh western Canadian winter. — Sean Avery