Eric Temple Bell Quotes

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

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• Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Question

• I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the lifestyle I choose for playwriting.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Journey

• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Time
  • History
  • Beautiful

• Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

  

  Confucius
  • Courage
  • Trouble
  • Morality

• Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Change
  • Lose
  • Ruin

• The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • United States
  • Exporter

• Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Important
  • Insignificant

• I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fashion
  • Faces
  • Marvellous

• Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

  

  William Zabka
  • Character
  • Sometimes

• Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Book
  • Lovers

• Roger Casement is an intriguing figure - humanitarian, Irish revolutionary, gay - and much had and would be written about him, there was something about his character as a conflicted man, an Irish Protestant who spent much of his time representing England in different African nations, a gay man who, true to the times, kept his sexual orientation to himself, that kept playing in my head. I read on and around him, but a historical figure is not a story - it's not even a character - so my story, the one that I would develop into Valiant Gentlemen, had yet to reveal itself.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Men
  • Different
  • Character

• The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Women
  • Country
  • Real

• I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

  

  Carrot Top
  • Together
  • Wanted
  • Shows

• I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

  

  Melvyn Bragg
  • Personal
  • Resurrection
  • Testament

• The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.

  

  George Gilder
  • Entrepreneur
  • Canvas
  • Scientist

• But it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.

  

  Homer
  • Soul
  • Dream
  • Spirit

• Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

  

  Eric Temple Bell
  • Merit
  • Mortals
  • Mathematicians