Prometheusizing Quotes & Sayings

I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me. — David Beckham

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless. — Lauren Oliver

Either I'm ridiculously lucky or ridiculously unlucky, I just don't know which one. — Maija Haavisto

People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone! — Karl Pilkington

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you — Bob Dylan

One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches. — Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time. — Carson Kressley

Oh,right.Like he's been in a monestary copying scripture for the last ten years." Kate squared her shoulders, her feminist flag waving high. "It's none of his damn business if you've taken on the Fifth,Six,and Seventh fleets. — Nora Roberts

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal

Humans can find many ways to hide from themselves in distractions and by being "busy. — David W. Earle

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood. — Thomas Jefferson

The truth, though is that Cantor's work and its context are so totally interesting and beautiful that there's no need for breathless Prometheusizing of the poor guy's life. The real irony is that the view of (Infinity) as some forbidden zone or road to insanity-which view was very old and powerful and haunted math for 2000+ years- is precisely what Cantor's own work overturned. Saying that (Infinity) drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting. — David Foster Wallace