D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Quotes
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.
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You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
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I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.
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They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
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Dresses are beautiful, but I'm such a slacks or a jeans person. Whenever a woman has a slick suit or dress on, she looks sharp.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
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'Heaven's Gate' was based on a true story about the cattle people: the people who had the money turned on the settlers who were in the area. And it was mainly a defense of their behavior. And the cattlemen's association had just about declared war on these people who were poaching cattle, and because they were mainly immigrants.
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If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.
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The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.
