Dirichlet Quotes

#1. The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#2. The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

Jane Goodall

#3. That is - you are not to thank him for the money; he doesn't care to have that mentioned, but you are to write a letter telling of the progress in your studies and the details of your daily life.

Jean Webster

#4. My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

Evan Williams

#5. Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#7. In the United States, resources exist to retrain displaced workers and promote the development of technologies that create new job opportunities for American workers.

Oscar Arias

#8. Our pride and desire to be seen a certain way prevent us from living the life God desires for us.

Trillia J. Newbell

#9. I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

Joel Robuchon

#10. Deep down I'm superficial

Anne Penketh

#11. As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further.

Santosh Kalwar

#12. Are you really going to ask such inane questions all the time? Mystic bloody forces; just accept them and cope!

Kate Griffin

#13. Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

Gil Kane