Kovalevskaya Quotes

#1. But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.

Julia Child

#2. Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

Benjamin Haydon

#3. It is worthy of note that killing oneself and killing someone is not the same. For the former, one should lose one's faith, for the latter, one should never have any.

Igor Eliseev

#4. It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

#5. Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#6. Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

John Gay

#7. No prince, no success filled her dreams: only time spread out before her to spend as she chose, a time of contemplation which offered her refuge.

Delphine De Vigan

#8. When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is.

Josh Linkner

#9. It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

#10. Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

#11. I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

Isadora Duncan

#12. The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.

Steve Coogan

#13. Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

#14. But that's exactly the problem, retorted Isabel. We're all stuck with the same tired and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility of something radically different, then we'd never make any progress - ever. We'd still be thinking that the sun revolved round the earth.

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?

Curt Schilling

#16. Are you gonna be tough, or are you going to be tough?

Dwight Howard