Trygve Seim Quotes & Sayings

Every mental state is also physical. — Siri Hustvedt

A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in the middle of whatever is going on. The characters are having interesting, subtle interactions, or jealousies, or whatever it is, and suddenly some gigantic angry eruption has to happen, a giant gasp where everyone has to scramble around. That's the point where I'm turned off. I want the dynamic range to be a little smaller. I don't like the big false bangs. — Nicholson Baker

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti

Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations. — Jessica Park

Decidedly it was the policy of an imbecile. — Agatha Christie

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern. — Andrew Greeley

Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied. — Lancelot Hogben

While I live, every criminal must die. — Pope Sixtus V

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders. — Greg Egan

Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seem to warp and curve. The shapes coalesce into the right number. I never write anything down. — Daniel Tammet

Inviolable, untrod; goddesses,
Dread brood of Earth and Darkness, here abide. — Sophocles

The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law. — Jeffrey Toobin