Farkas's Quotes

#1. Farkas's Jewish family trees go on for pages, each virtually identical to the one before, until the conclusion becomes inescapable: Jewish doctors and lawyers did not become professionals in spite of their humble origins. They became professionals because of their humble origins.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.

Farkas Bolyai

#3. These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.

Jean Moulin

#4. You saw my leg?"
"How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.

Shannon Hale

#5. I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees.

Lupita Nyong'o

#6. A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

Philip Sidney

#7. When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

Farkas Bolyai

#8. Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

Farkas Bolyai

#9. The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...

Farkas Bolyai

#10. It wasn't that Ed would make it okay
he had his own problems to deal with
but somehow the sum of them added up to something better. They would make it okay.

Jojo Moyes

#11. I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.

Jason Alexander