Tropfstein Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present. — Barry Mazur

What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars across my two-year-old brother's face or when he whacked her so hard that she lost her hearing for a week? Who'll be my memory?"
Santangelo doesn't miss a beat. "I will. Ring me."
"Same," Raffy says.
I look at him. I can't even speak because if I do I know I'll cry but I smile and he knows what I'm thinking. — Melina Marchetta

[I]f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking about the body of the beloved, not real estate. — Terry Tempest Williams

But every time there have been conquests there have been conquerors; every time there has been a revolution in any state there have been great men, — Leo Tolstoy

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers — Arthur Helps

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music. — Josh Groban

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me. — Paula Cole

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture. — Juliet Marillier

The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing. — Abby Slovin

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid. — Shia Labeouf