Algebraic Formulas Quotes

#1. Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)

Tristan Tzara

#2. I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.

Paul Lockhart

#3. Years, so many years we'd been friends and sisters . . . and now she was gone. Taking a handful of dirt, I held it over the grave, and let it sift through my fingers. "Be at peace, Milly. Wait for me on the other side, my friend.

Shannon Mayer

#4. Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about.

Clementa C. Pinckney

#5. To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Joseph Addison

#6. Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

Richard Marcinko

#7. Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.

Sathya Sai Baba

#8. Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.

Olivia Wilde

#9. Sometimes in life, dreams aren't all they're cracked up to be. When they're not, though, there's usually another dream - a better dream - waiting for you in the wings.

Catherine Gayle

#10. In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.

John Lennon

#11. Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

Carole King

#12. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#13. In the vastness of the desert, each reduction of the group made them realize how small they were, how puny, in relation to the space they were traveling through.

Larry McMurtry

#14. Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.

John Calvin

#15. He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

Frank Herbert

#16. Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

#17. Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

Peter Singer