Arthur Porges Quotes
"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!
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Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.
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Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury
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Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.
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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
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They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
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Here’s the thing: Admitting I’m flirting is a big step for me. I don’t want to be ignored. It hurts, like I’m being told that it’s just me. That I’m flirting, and he’s just handing out equations.
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No matter how many mysteries Nancy had solved, her friends never ceased to be amazed each time.
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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.
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"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."
