Cardano Quotes

#1. Fowl never tastes as savory when you're hungry for venison.

Lynn Flewelling

#2. She would pause sometimes to listen to the sound of the water as it lightly hit the walls of the fort. This too was music to her ears; it would calm her down and give her respite from the humdrum of life

Anamika Mishra

#3. When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

Ray Davies

#4. As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

Adam Mansbach

#5. Murders came with smiles, shooting people was no big deal for us Goodfellas.

Henry Hill

#6. I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

Dave Cooper

#7. Mathematics, however, is, as it were, its own explanation; this, although it may seem hard to accept, is nevertheless true, for the recognition that a fact is so is the cause upon which we base the proof.

Gerolamo Cardano

#8. Sweet is a grief well ended.

Aeschylus

#9. The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.

Gerolamo Cardano

#10. How could one person, who'd proven to be so inherently bad for me, so wrong, still be so utterly necessary for my happiness?
It wasn't fair.

R.K. Lilley

#11. Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Richard Preston

#12. Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.

Gerolamo Cardano

#13. The determinate scheme by stripping the sunrise of it's surprise would erase all sunrays.

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.

Saul Williams

#15. Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.

John Wesley

#16. When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

Ace Frehley

#17. If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on.

Ruth Stout

#18. The choice is not, Reich argues, between a governed and an ungoverned market, but between a market governed by laws favoring monopolistic companies and one governed by those favoring small business.

Arlie Russell Hochschild