Shakuntala Devi Quotes

#1. Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

John Dryden

#2. I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

Shakuntala Devi

#3. And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility.

Bill Cosby

#4. You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

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#5. Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

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#6. I am a prince(ss) of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing my kingdom of activity.

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#7. You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#8. If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

Shakuntala Devi

#9. Pain is nothing, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph is the real thing. Biut of course he is wrong.

J.M. Coetzee

#10. I cannot transfer my abilities to anyone, but I can think of quicker ways with which to help people develop numerical aptitude.

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#11. I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!

Shakuntala Devi

#12. I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could.

James Mercer

#13. Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

Simon Barnes

#14. I also finally see that a crimson kiss isn't something you can chase, because it's more than just the passionate meeting of mouths.
It's a confession.
It's the truth your lips whisper to someone you love.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#15. Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

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#16. I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

Bruce Catton

#17. The problem and the question on 'Breaking Bad' is always 'Where is Walt's head at?'

Peter Gould

#18. I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don't want to single myself out as someone up and above.

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#19. I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician.

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#20. One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it would be such a shame not to redeem it that it's all fun.

Bill Maher

#21. Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.

Shakuntala Devi

#22. Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

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#23. But we believe that the Octavo must be read to avert catastrophe - otherwise why did the Creator leave it behind?" "Perhaps He was just forgetful," suggested the astrologer.

Terry Pratchett

#24. Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.

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#25. Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

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#26. No' is a reaction, not a position. The people who react negatively to your proposal simply need time to evaluate it and adjust their thinking. With the passage of sufficient time and repeated efforts on your part, almost every 'no' can be transformed into a 'maybe' and eventually a 'yes'.

Herb Cohen

#27. It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

Irvin D. Yalom

#28. I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results.

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#29. Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications.

Mike Rogers

#30. I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

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