Math Quotes

• In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • She
  • Fun
  • Running

• I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • Education
  • English
  • Math

• If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

  

  Kelly Ripa
  • Bad
  • Waiting
  • Math

• I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

  

  James Van Der Beek
  • Strong
  • Math

• LOTTERY TICKET: a voluntary tax paid by people who are extremely bad at math.

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Bad
  • Tax
  • Paid

• I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.

  

  Peter Cullen
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Science

• Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

  

  Conrad Wolfram
  • World
  • Hand
  • Math

• I'm not terribly athletic. And... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I was really a pretty bad math student growing up.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

  

  George Gamow
  • Up
  • Math

• I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

  

  AnnaLynne McCord
  • Math
  • Nerd

• I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so scientific and mathematical, and whose brain functions at such a high pace. The biggest difference is that Maura is very linear in her thinking and very logical. I'm not quite like that. I'm much more laid back and not quite so type A. That's the big difference.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Fun

• We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Long
  • Lost
  • Attention

• I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • College
  • English
  • Math

• We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

  

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers
  • Science
  • Resource
  • Professionals

• I think that smart is sexy, and driven is sexy, and passion is sexy, and if you're passionate about math, so be it.

  

  Jonathan Slavin
  • Passion
  • Smart
  • Sexy

• I'm a fairly ordinary person - a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!

  

  Carol Berg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I've been on swims where people have freaked out about sharks. You have to think about something else, otherwise it will absolutely paralyze you. I do math problems, anything.

  

  Lewis Gordon Pugh
  • People
  • Math

• The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • Up
  • Science
  • Party

• We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • World
  • School

• Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Art
  • Science
  • Poetry

• I was particularly good at math and science.

  

  William Standish Knowles
  • Math

• By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Training

• Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better. or is this real?

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Real
  • Math

• Music is math; music is spiritual.

  

  Bokeem Woodbine
  • Spiritual
  • Math
  • Music Is

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