Quotes for All
A crippled child Said, How shall I dance? Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: How shall I sing? Let your heart sing We said Then spoke the poor dead thistle, But I, how shall I dance? Let your heart fly to the wind We said. Then God spoke from above How … Read more
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand… So Greek mathematics is ‘permanent’, more permanent even than Greek literature. G. H. Hardy
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty. Evelyn Waugh
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman’s day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days – such as that day – when the chestnut was in flower and the … Read more
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. Evan Esar
Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel – even a mighty big wheel – if it’s going too fast. Ethel M. Dell
Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That’s what I want to do. Erykah Badu
Like Molière’s M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies … Read more
We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life’s struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon’s tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, … Read more
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America’s strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds. Ernest Istook