Robert Recorde Quotes

#1. A lot of people had to die for me to be me.

Frank Costello

#2. Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

Robert Recorde

#3. When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Mark Twain

#4. To avoide the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to: I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles, or gemowe [twin] lines of one lengthe: =, bicause noe .2. thynges, can be moare equalle.

Robert Recorde

#5. As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious

Henry Rollins

#6. Punctuality was not Susan's strength. She always intended to be on time, but she seemed to have some kind of chronometric dyslexia, which thwarted her intent, nearly always.

Robert B. Parker

#7. Exercise is the beste intrument in learnyng.

Robert Recorde

#8. The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

George Leonard

#9. I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

Tim Tebow

#10. The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default.

George C. Marshall

#11. Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

Homer

#12. First, you must know what the thing is, and then after learn the use of the same.

Robert Recorde

#13. One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.

May Sarton

#14. Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.

Brandon Boyd

#15. According to Sports Illustrated, an amazing 78 percent of NFL players find themselves bankrupt or financially stressed within two years of retirement. And 60 percent of NBA players are broke within five years of walking off the court.

Andy Stanley

#16. Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

James Rosenquist

#17. I'll keep going till my face falls off.

Barbara Cartland

#18. Who the Hell is Lane? he asked. Unmistakably, it was the question of a still very young man who, now and then, is not inclined to admiti that he know the first names of certain people.

J.D. Salinger

#19. Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are Astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, which else would farre excell mans minde.

Robert Recorde

#20. Houses seem to remember,' said he.
'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them.

Emma Frances Dawson