Alexander Grothendieck Quotes

It is less than four years since cohomological methods (i.e. methods of Homological Algebra) were introduced into Algebraic Geometry in Serre's fundamental paper

Alexander Grothendieck

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• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Best
  • Unexpected

• I am who I am.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Person

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Change
  • Popular
  • Busy

• I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Community
  • Child

• I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
  • Trust

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Wife
  • Road
  • Stupid

• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Inspiration
  • Secret
  • Patience

• I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Child

• If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• They were most correct, according to their god.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • God

• The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Money
  • Running

• No use to fall down on my knees and beg for mercy's sake. Nothing I counted mine, out of my life, is mine to take...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Mercy

• He is dead, and my hatred has died with him.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Racism

• We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Country
  • America
  • Support

• Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Moving
  • Humanity
  • Leaving

• My Shangri-la has gone away, Faded like the Beatles on Hey Jude She seemed to drift out on the rain That came in somewhere softly from the blue.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • She
  • Blue
  • Rain

• The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.

  

  Geoffrey Gorer
  • Brotherhood
  • Institutions
  • Buddha

• I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Mistakes
  • Wonderful
  • Capacity

• It is less than four years since cohomological methods (i.e. methods of Homological Algebra) were introduced into Algebraic Geometry in Serre's fundamental paper

  

  Alexander Grothendieck