Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

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• May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Life
  • Live
  • May

• I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Will
  • Talk
  • Weapons

• We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.

  

  Foster Friess
  • War
  • Surprise
  • Technique

• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Far
  • Void
  • Fill

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Good
  • Communication
  • Obscure

• We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Truth
  • Stop
  • Politics

• The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Truth
  • Health
  • Truth Is

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • History
  • Future
  • Change

• It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Different
  • Family
  • Experience

• I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Lot

• I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Same

• Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest

• I shake hands on the first date.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Hands
  • First
  • Date

• I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • High
  • Like
  • Sad

• April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Advice
  • Tax
  • April

• But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• Here come the Democrats, again, you know, just weaker than Canadian hot sauce. You know? Offering a little reform. I saw one of the Senators, Democrats, saying, we're going to have a robust disclosure program. Oh, good. They're going to tell us they're stealing from us. But at least we're going to know.

  

  Jim Hightower
  • Good

• My jet lag is getting a bit ridiculous. But, you know, it's first-world problems. It's a wonderful problem, 'Oh I have to travel around the world; how awful.'

  

  Margot Robbie
  • World
  • Travel

• There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a 'free' line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as 'free' as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Free
  • Action
  • Question

• I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Work
  • Distraction

• Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Travel
  • Clouds