M. C. Escher Quotes
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
Quotes to Explore
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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My son will be an American, but I remain French.
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And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
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Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
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Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
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I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
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Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
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I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.
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I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
