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.

  

  Irving Penn
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

  

  Nas
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sure
  • Excellent
  • Anybody

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Struggle

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Beautiful
  • Moment
  • Beard

• 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.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Family
  • May

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Great
  • Real
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion

• It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• 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.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• 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.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Politics
  • Perfection

• Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

  

  Edwin Starr
  • Country
  • May

• The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.

  

  Alexander Elder
  • Influence
  • Behavior
  • Market

• No one deserves brutality because of what they are, their condition of birth, including being born female; and the women in this book are not asking for it- instead they are risking as much as any man risks to live, to love.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Live
  • Women
  • Book

• The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

  

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  • Beautiful
  • Perfection
  • Excellent