Enchantress Of Numbers Quotes

#1. Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible
its multitudinous Charlatans
everything in short but
the Enchantress of Numbers.

Ada Lovelace

#2. There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

Martha Grimes

#3. For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

Oren Peli

#4. Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

Erwin Knoll

#5. But the true inconvenience of love, Loki decides, is that even as passion wanes, love is still there.

C. Gockel

#6. Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

Joan Halifax

#7. If god made anything better, he kept it for himself

William Gibson

#8. You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

Edgar Degas

#9. Confucius say if man want to grow one row of corn, first must shovel one ton of shit.

Stephen King

#10. [It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Robert Moses

#11. Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation.

Todd Newton

#12. I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

Mohsin Hamid

#13. When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.

Moby

#14. I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

Mariel Hemingway

#15. As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Robert Gottlieb

#16. I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

Ilona Andrews