Quotes About Nasar

#1. Shakespeare calls jealousy yellow and green; I think it may be called black and white for it most assuredly views white as black, and black as white. The most fanciful surmises wear the aspect of truth, the greatest improbabilities appear as consistent realities.

Mrs. Henry Wood

#2. A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

Sylvia Nasar

#3. Hopes of putting their sad history behind them was bound to be bittersweet.

Sylvia Nasar

#4. Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.

Sylvia Nasar

#5. I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Sylvia Nasar

#6. several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to the illness.15

Sylvia Nasar

#7. You are all my reasons.

Sylvia Nasar

#8. On the morning that they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat bishop was coming on.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. Fermat's assertion that if n is any whole number and p any prime, then n multiplied by itself p times minus n is divisible by p.

Sylvia Nasar

#10. The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#11. I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.

Sylvia Nasar

#12. A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

Sylvia Nasar

#13. With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#14. It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go.

Sylvia Nasar

#15. The historian Will Durant calculated that there have only been twenty-nine years in all of human history during which a war was not underway somewhere.

Chris Hedges

#16. In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.

Winifred Gallagher

#17. Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

Rebecca West

#19. RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'.

Sylvia Nasar

#20. Woodrow Wilson, like most other educated Americans of his time, despised mathematics, complaining that "the natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be leaned by painful process of drill.

Sylvia Nasar

#21. I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.

Kevin Spacey

#22. People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.

Sylvia Nasar

#23. Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

#24. Hey Nash! You scared?'
'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!

Sylvia Nasar