Alexander Grothendieck Quotes
The introduction of the digit 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...
Alexander Grothendieck
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
Karl Lagerfeld
This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
A. P. Herbert
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes
The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
Owen Wilson
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.
Salman Rushdie
I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
Gary Wright
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
Randy Pausch
She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
Walter Scott
Life, struck sharp on death,Makes awful lightning. His last word was, 'Love–'Love, my child, love, love!'–(then he had done with grief)'Love, my child.' Ere I answered he was gone,And none was left to love in all the world.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.
Bennie Thompson