Edwin A. Abbott Quotes

Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.

Edwin A. Abbott

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• I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Never

• At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hurt

• Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Career
  • Early

• One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Hand
  • Dreams
  • Bed

• When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • Like
  • Military

• You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

  

  Ed Harris
  • City
  • Day
  • Sleep

• I think that 'Room 104' offered us an organic opportunity to tell all kinds of stories with all kinds of protagonists.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • Opportunity

• We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Break
  • Promises

• I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Discipline

• When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Risk

• We're going to respond to the Gulf within 72 hours. After a disaster, if you can get people rescued within 72 hours; they are far better off as far as getting them rescued without additional injury or illness or loss of life.

  

  John Metcalf
  • Disaster
  • Illness
  • Injury

• Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Novel

• One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Escape
  • Virtues
  • Dancer

• Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Circumstances

• The first guy who got Aids was a French flight attendant. How you like that Frenchie! You know when I come back and run for office, that may be the one that comes back and haunts me.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Guy
  • Office
  • Flight

• I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

  

  William Bradford Shockley Jr.
  • Rule
  • Allowed
  • Spherical

• Each of these "houses of hope" had their own unique "ingredients" based on their inheritance, but I also saw some common ingredients that were shared by all: ... In conclusion, the Lord is saying, "Because of what has been loosed on the earth, angels are ascending and descending, as well as demons. My people must run into the house of hope! The river will take you there! This is not a fearful thing. Respond!" I am hearing the Lord giving this call to the nations. Don't be like Reuben in Judges 5, who couldn't decide, Do I go, do I stay? The Lord is shouting, "Run into that house of hope!"

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Conclusion
  • Angels
  • The Lord

• Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

  

  Catherine Malandrino
  • Indulgence
  • Default
  • Fur

• Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.

  

  Edwin A. Abbott
  • Rule
  • Measure
  • Angels