Quotes About Conic Sections

#1. Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.

Arthur Koestler

#3. Once upon a time, tomorrow was the first day of the world.

Ramona Ausubel

#4. We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

Maynard James Keenan

#6. Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Washington Irving

#7. He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

Thomas Paine

#8. I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

Douglas Adams

#9. God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.

Kevin DeYoung