Quotes About Mazur

#1. You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?

Gail Mazur

#2. Damn, I thought everyone carried a gun in New Jersey!!!

Janet Evanovich

#3. Hello," I said stiffly.
His smile split into a full grin."So nice to see you again."
"Always a pleasure." My lie sounded robotic, but hopefully it was better than sounding afraid.
"No,no," he said. "The pleasure's all mine."
"If you say so,"I said.

Richelle Mead

#4. Well, well, well," I said. "If it isn't the people responsible for unleashing Rose Hathaway on the world. You've got a lot to answer for.

Richelle Mead

#5. I heard about them Rangers on TV," Grandma said. "I heard they get dogs pregnant." -Grandma Mazur

Janet Evanovich

#6. Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

Eric Mazur

#7. The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you've learned into new contexts.

Eric Mazur

#8. There is an
underlying timelessness
in the basic conversation
that is mathematics.

Barry Mazur

#9. Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

Eric Mazur

#10. In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).

Barry Mazur

#11. That shooting gave me an appetite," she said. "Somebody pass
me the potatoes."
Grandma Mazur

Janet Evanovich

#12. I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material,

Eric Mazur

#13. You do believe I didn't do it, right?" For all I knew, he did think I was guilty and was just trying to help anyways. It wouldn't have been out of character.
"I believe my sweet daughter is capable of murder," he said at last. "But not this one.

Richelle Mead

#14. Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.

Richelle Mead

#15. When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said:
She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.

Janet Evanovich

#16. Grandma Mazur reads the obituary columns like they're part of the paper's entertainment section. Other communities have country clubs and fraternal orders. The Burg has funeral parlors. If people stopped dying, the social life of the Burg would come to a grinding halt.

Janet Evanovich

#17. So, I want to try to spend more time with Dad."
Abe glanced at Rose."You see that?" He said. "Now that's devotion." She rolled her eyes at him.

Richelle Mead

#18. I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down.
Grandma Mazur

Janet Evanovich

#19. Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

Barry Mazur

#20. Maybe it was me," Grandma said."Sometimes they sneak out.Did I fart?

Janet Evanovich

#21. Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.

Michael Hersch

#22. I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate.
Grandma Mazur

Janet Evanovich

#23. The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled.
Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna have to try it out at the seniors meeting.

Janet Evanovich

#24. If I let her in I'm doomed. It's like inviting a vampire into your house. Once you've invite them in, that's it, you're good as dead!

Janet Evanovich

#25. Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job.

Richelle Mead

#26. Who are these people?" my mother asked.
"Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?

Richelle Mead

#27. After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.

Joseph Mazur

#28. You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.

Eric Mazur

#29. Well that's disappointing," Grandma Mazur said. "I expected something better from her.

Janet Evanovich

#30. That means nothing, said Abe with a shrug. I had a feeling that if I stood and suddenly confessed to the murder, he would still claim it was dubious evidence.

Richelle Mead

#31. [Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love
[Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.

Janet Evanovich

#32. Don't take the high ground and assume you already know what you'll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you'll find there isn't anything you won't do.

Richelle Mead

#33. The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.

Barry Mazur

#34. Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.

Barry Mazur

#35. Grandma was wearing a blond Marilyn Monroe wig, a hot pink tank top, black Pilates pants, and black kitten heels. She looked like the senior version of an inflatable sex toy doll that needed more air.

Janet Evanovich

#36. Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training."
"Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.

Richelle Mead

#37. I shot that sucker right in the gumpy.
Grandma Mazur

Janet Evanovich