E. T. Bell Quotes

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

E. T. Bell

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• A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Man
  • Mistake
  • Same

• I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• You can't live your life through your children.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Secret

• I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Hope
  • Education

• If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • You
  • Door

• I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Think
  • Hope

• Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Married

• Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why.

  

  Alexander Brome
  • Love
  • Know
  • Moves

• Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

  

  Haim Ginott

• Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Why
  • Road

• By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Good
  • Practice

• If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Mystery
  • Results

• You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Vices
  • Interaction

• On stage you never watch yourself. You just experience it, and then you go home, and you feel pretty good if you gave a pretty good performance or crappy if you didn't. But in TV and film, you actually have to experience it while you're doing it, and then you have to watch it. And then when you're watching it, you watch it with a different sensibility than how you experienced it.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Different
  • Home
  • Film

• An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Men
  • Artist
  • Immortality

• You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • History
  • Laws
  • Mathematics

• It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Mathematics
  • Immortality