Alexander Grothendieck Quotes

Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

Alexander Grothendieck

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• When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Like
  • Radio

• There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Rights
  • Where
  • Limit

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Look
  • Foundation
  • Throw

• I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Enough
  • Old
  • Without

• The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Life
  • Character
  • Kids

• Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Morning

• In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

  

  Bridget Riley
  • Space
  • Picture

• My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

  

  Lennie James
  • Time
  • Football
  • Boxing

• Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Time
  • Live
  • Forever

• This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • History
  • Thought
  • Perspective

• What inspires me is the universe.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Universe
  • Inspire

• A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games you have adventure, sci-fi, horror, action and even comedy. I think that people should accept more that video games are kind of like the best-selling books of the new generation.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • True
  • Game

• I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Valuable

• ...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • She

• I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

  

  Ray Liotta
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Director

• For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Impossible
  • Social
  • Economic

• Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.

  

  Cecil Balmond
  • Pleasure
  • Knowing
  • Engineering

• Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

  

  Alexander Grothendieck
  • Structure
  • Fascinated
  • Mathematical