Simeon Denis Poisson Quotes

#1. I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

Mark Twain

#2. Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

Simeon Denis Poisson

#3. Never ever give up, even - and especially when - there's no chance of winning

Ann Curry

#4. To larger sight, the rim of shadow is the line of light.

Thomas William Parsons

#5. The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place.
The measure of the probability of an event is the ratio of the number of cases favourable to that event, to the total number of cases favourable or contrary, and all equally possible.

Simeon Denis Poisson

#6. Oh, fuck me running! Or on the edge of your bed using your mouth.

Georgia Cates

#7. I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna.

Jefferson Mays

#8. Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#9. I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

Kevin James

#10. If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

Johann Most

#11. Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Joseph Addison

#12. Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

Simeon Denis Poisson

#13. Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Al Jourgensen

#14. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.

Norman Tebbit

#15. You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, or is education something entirely different? Something more!

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17. The top seed this weekend is Richard Krajicek,12 a 6'5" Dutchman who wears a tiny white billed hat in the sun and rushes the net like it owes him money and in general plays like a rabid crane.

David Foster Wallace