Legendre Quotes

#1. In this new hall the factions regroup in their old places. Legendre the butcher bawls out a Brissotin: "I'll slaughter you!" "First," says the deputy, "have a decree passed to say that I am an ox.

Hilary Mantel

#2. [As a young teenager] Galois read Legendre]'s geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

Eric Temple Bell

#3. In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Fernando Botero

#4. Dolls are like small dead people.

Nora Roberts

#5. You are creating your own hell.

Rajneesh

#6. Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

Roseanne Barr

#7. All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

Adrien-Marie Legendre

#8. When you hear a word from God it resonates in the pillars of your soul.

Karen Wheaton

#9. I asked the cardiologist why an electrocardiogram was called an EKG, instead of an ECG.
He said, "Nazis. Nazis invented the machine."
After he left, I found a napkin on my breakfast tray and wrote that down: EKG = Nazis.

Monica Drake

#10. If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

Red Green

#11. The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

Wilder Penfield

#12. These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.

Adrien-Marie Legendre

#13. Creativity comes from constraint.

Biz Stone

#14. She was afraid to be angry and that made her angry.

Marilynne Robinson

#15. There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

W.B.Yeats