Decontextualizing Math Quotes

#1. I hurt in places I didn't know were places.

Kevin Hearne

#2. I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God.

Mahershala Ali

#3. If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest in the arts. I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate ... It's a blend; it's not a point focus.

Paul Allen

#4. If people can...they will.
(This applies across the board; good, bad or ugly.)

Lora

#5. May you great success in all your daring adventures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Jandy Nelson

#7. It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Imran Khan

#8. It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.

David Bronstein

#9. The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible.

Julian Lage

#10. He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.

James Dashner

#11. She was lovely. I just wanted to enjoy her without responsibility, but that wasn't why she was here. She'd come here to submit to me. I had a job.

C.D. Reiss

#12. His eyes held me in place, both of us never wavering, letting the air around us crackle with the words we'd spoken and the words yet to speak, and the knowledge that this could, in all honesty, become nothing between us. Or it could become everything.

Shelly Crane

#13. When the battle is long and hard the victory is even sweeter

Anthony Venn-Brown

#14. You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.

Pearl Zhu