Onera Quotes

#1. I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#2. The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. Sound is a different frequency

NightBits

#4. Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

Angelo Dundee

#5. The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

Bruno Munari

#6. Other people can spark a vision for your life, but until you can hold that dream in your own head and your own heart, it's never going to come true.

Michael Strahan

#7. Sweetheart, do not love too long:
I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.

William Butler Yeats

#8. Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.

Bill Gates

#9. And Pencroft returned to his work, not without uttering a sigh of regret, for every sailor is a born fisherman, and if the pleasure of fishing is in exact proportion to the size of the animal, one can judge how a whaler feels in sight of a whale.

Jules Verne

#10. You're entering a world of pain.

John Goodman

#11. Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#12. God has designed us to depend on His Word to lead his people in ways that are utterly disproportionate to who we are.

David Platt

#13. I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

Joan Rivers

#14. Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way.

Karleen Koen

#15. I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.

Neil Young