Dieudonne Quotes

#1. I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

Billy Collins

#2. Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

Vita Sackville-West

#3. Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Bridget Riley

#4. Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Norman Mailer

#5. Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!

Jean Dieudonne

#6. We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

Jean Dieudonne

#7. You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

Emerson Fittipaldi

#8. The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

Jean Dieudonne

#9. I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck ... maybe I'll play a superhero.

Miles Teller

#10. Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

Jean Dieudonne

#11. People don't remember what we think is important; they remember what they think is important.

John C. Maxwell

#12. He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Joseph Stalin

#13. It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.

Jean Dieudonne

#14. Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#15. And one more thing I want to be clear about- I know who I am. I am just a very thin layer of charming with some funny sprinkles wrapped around a huge creamy center of raging arrogant a-hole. I got it.

Christopher Titus

#16. ... anything to avoid the uncomfortable nearness of strangers

David Arnold

#17. If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Saint Augustine

#18. Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.

John Newton

#19. Well, he thought, you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be President of the United States, and on that useless profundity, Milligan himself pedalled on, himself, himself.

Spike Milligan