Mersenne Quotes

#1. There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

Thomas Hobbes

#2. I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

Dani Shapiro

#3. [Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary for them to follow it just as it is necessary for the wheels of a clock to follow the weights and the spring that pulls them.

Marin Mersenne

#4. What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

A.A. Milne

#5. Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

Angela Thirkell

#6. Education is gathering information and reading ... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

Victor LaValle

#7. Just for today, i'll try to maintain a positive perspective, no matter what the situation ...

Tom Walsh

#8. Abduction is a romantic expression of passion.

Nicole Jordan

#9. What has been the tale of me? ... (in May 16, 1848 letter to Abiah Root)

Emily Dickinson

#10. Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

Marin Mersenne

#11. If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it.

Tyler Seguin