Edward Kasner Quotes

#1. I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

Afrika Bambaataa

#2. I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

Julie Kagawa

#3. Not Diana herself, although this was more of a Venus after all, could have done a graceful thing more gracefully.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

Edward Kasner

#5. CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.

Dave Grohl

#6. To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#7. When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.

Idries Shah

#8. Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

Edward Kasner

#9. I, Charles W. Penrose, wrote the Manifesto with the assistance of Frank J. Cannon and John White ... Wilford Woodruff signed it to beat the devil at his own game.

Charles W. Penrose

#10. I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA.

Kellie Pickler

#11. I wanted to start living, not endlessly preparing.

Gurbaksh Chahal

#12. It is because God loves the world he has made, and especially his human creatures, that he hates everything that spoils, wrecks, or defaces it.

N. T. Wright

#13. The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.

Edward Kasner

#14. Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Edward Kasner

#15. Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

Louis O. Kelso

#16. Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

Bernie Siegel

#17. Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

Edward Kasner

#18. The fans have access to the show and the creators, even if it's not direct. I don't know any television creators that don't follow the message boards. The feedback is so immediate, to see what is working and what isn't, and what's working better than you anticipated.

Jeff Pinkner

#19. Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.

Suze Orman

#20. Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he [or she] live in.

Edward Kasner