Scully And Hitchcock Quotes & Sayings

What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number." With a bit of prodding as to what kind of study they mean, you may be able to induce them to come up with the description "the science of numbers." But that is about as far as you will get. And with that you will have obtained a description of mathematics that ceased to be accurate some two and a half thousand years ago! — Keith Devlin

Genet suggested that colonialism would crumble from the weight of its ignorance, its arrogance and greed, and that the oppressed would take over the positions of their former masters. They would be no better, no more courageous and no more merciful. I — Maya Angelou

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today. — Lope De Vega

Conversation without you trying to be sexy can still come off as very sexy. Trust me! — Sevyn Streeter

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. — Steve Buscemi

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight. — Malcolm X

Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged. — Avis Bohlen

Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. — M.F.K. Fisher

My father was from Northern Ireland, and coming from somewhere like that, your faith defines you. That's something we don't really understand outside Northern Ireland, but because of my parents and grandparents, I've experienced it. — Anna Maxwell Martin

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up. — Flannery O'Connor

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service, — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him. — Jerry Coleman