Carl Pomerance (Carl Brnard Peomerance) Quotes

Log Log Log (x) goes off to infinity with x, but has never been observed to do so.

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• I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Time
  • Space
  • Water

• Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Men
  • Done
  • Fun

• Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Song
  • Fall
  • Summer

• In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Courage
  • Advance
  • Soviet Army

• We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

  

  Nick Mancuso
  • Life
  • World
  • Worth

• I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Up
  • Real
  • Done

• On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Night
  • Soldier
  • Grandchildren

• Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.

  

  Geraldine Laybourne
  • Women
  • Consumers
  • Underestimated

• It was Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

  

  Hans Arp
  • Life
  • Way
  • Sophie Arp Tauber

• I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Want
  • Singing

• Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Subject
  • Object
  • Description

• I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Country
  • Experience
  • Job

• Artists, especially new artists and lesser known artists who did not have major backing, should find a more open environment to have their music heard and hopefully succeed.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Music
  • Environment
  • Artists

• It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it will include all minorities. But if the protection of one minority against another minority is what is happening, then I worry about that.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Worry
  • Speech
  • Minorities

• A young man, who's marching like a leopard, can't keep himself by the mistakes of the past.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Past
  • Young
  • Mistakes

• One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Methodical

• Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Space
  • Hand
  • Infinity

• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  

  William Blake
  • Infinity
  • Palm

• Log Log Log (x) goes off to infinity with x, but has never been observed to do so.

  

  Carl Pomerance
  • Infinity