Devaney Quotes

#1. I opened the door. "Don't do that," said a green, globby person. "You'll let the space-time continuum in.

Neil Gaiman

#2. It's just another notch in the good ol' fucked up, modern America belt.

S.L. Jennings

#3. Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

C.S. Lewis

#4. It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

Robert L. Devaney

#5. Sounds like to have space sometimes. It's good to give yourself a variety, or you just fatigue your ear. Like if somebody sings in the same register all the time, or if it's got the same feel the whole way through, I just find I get fatigued, so it's nice to break it up.

Neko Case

#6. For a rub with sweet tang: mix just a little bit of light brown sugar to garlic pepper, black pepper, and onion powder.

Johnny Trigg

#7. If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Paul Fussell

#8. Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course) ... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior of all solutions of the system was more important than the local behavior of particular, analytically-precise solutions.

Robert L. Devaney

#9. I'm scared of audiences.

Adele

#10. When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

Shane Carruth

#11. When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight.

John O'Donohue

#12. I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

Bob Devaney

#13. When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#14. he began frantically writing invisible letters in the air.

Michael Devaney

#15. If you feel like life has passed you by then you weren't really living it.

Life begins when you start living it.

Tara Devaney-Thompson

#16. The need to take her was raging, some fatal drug that stabbed into his veins, speeding up his heartbeat and clouding his mind.

Nora Roberts

#17. Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Gail Sheehy

#18. Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies face a backlash by anti-immigrant groups for hiring foreigners. So they do it only because they have to.

Vivek Wadhwa