Mathematikerin Quotes & Sayings

A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a cocktail waitress, the picture would be two such bands of light. Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is just dead machinery. — Kurt Vonnegut

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last. — Horace

Truth can't be found in the stars; let the story speak for itself. — L.M. Fields

Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses. — Paul Graham

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. — John W. Gardner

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else. — Daniel Handler

Because first and foremost, Izzy was marrying Eden Gillman because he wanted her to keep on smiling at him, the way she was smiling at him right now.
He wanted to be her hero. — Suzanne Brockmann

The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups. — Ada Calhoun

I know what people want to hear is the connection with the son, Roger, when you have a child. I would love to tell that there was an epiphany as to what it is to be a mom, but I didn't feel any difference there. — Laura Linney

During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement. — Thomas Berry

That's the other thing: Even if you're on medication, you still have to treat your body properly and take care of yourself. The idea that [ADHD] goes away or you grow out of it isn't true. — Ty Pennington

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely. — Phyllis Rose

Just because you don't see the devil doesn't mean he isn't there. He doesn't carry a pitchfork. He hides in plain sight. — Laura McHugh