Mortain Gap Quotes & Sayings

I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable. — Richard Hamming

This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life. — Coretta Scott King

I will take a pie in the face any time for a worthy cause. — Cheryl Richardson

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. — E.W. Howe

I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest. — Ashlee Simpson

My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide. — Pat Conroy

The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most of my picture books rhyme. Also, when I write a picture book I'm always thinking about the role the pictures will play in the telling of the story. It can take me several months to write a picture book, but it takes me several years to write a novel. — Sarah Weeks

How would you like your eggs?"
I tried. I really did. But I glanced at his crotch and it came out anyway. "Fertilized? — Darynda Jones

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it. — Henry David Thoreau

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel. — James Callis