Truesdell Quotes & Sayings

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes? — John Updike

It seems if a man looks away for an instant, his freedoms can be stolen from him and he doesn't even recognize the loss until it's too late. — Karen Truesdell Riehl

Every morning, I make myself a cappuccino with a drawing in the foam. I post them to Instagram with the hashtag #christiecappuccino. — Christie Brinkley

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. — Nobuo Uematsu

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do. — Don McLean

We have swallowed technology and are struggling to avoid the shackles that make it work: rules and laws. — Seth Kantner

Particular rootlessness of the society had always lent itself to powerful extremes of both the left and the right, there was, in the volatility and evanescence of the culture an atmosphere ripe for extremism, each side with its own Utopian dreams, each side driving the other to a more polarized position. — David Halberstam

You mean I'm not lazy?
No bitch, I mean you intimidate guys with a look or a comment before they can even decide if they have a chance with you. You're so judgmental. Along with frigid. — Rachel Cohn

The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the World from suicide. — T. S. Eliot

Not even thinking about anything. My mind is a blank. We just want to enjoy the moment. — Andre Iguodala

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. — Henry Louis Gates

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] ... Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals. — Clifford A. Truesdell

Profound pain is often the unavoidable reality of conscious existence. — R.A. Salvatore

Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right. — Marianne Williamson

There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense. — Clifford Truesdell

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new. — Clifford Truesdell

I don't feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian. — Troy Polamalu