Struik Quotes

#1. I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.

D. B. Sweeney

#2. But when you're a kid it's like you're wearing these binoculars strapped to your eyes and you can't see anything except what's in the dead center of the lenses

Russell Banks

#3. Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.

Dirk Jan Struik

#4. I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.

Bill Kurtis

#5. The service bar in the parlor had been lightly used, some macadamias and

J.D. Robb

#6. Ethics is not a
geometrical calculation; "others" are never very far from "us"; "they" and "we" are co-constituted and entangled through the very cuts "we" help to enact. Cuts cut "things" together and apart. Cuts are not enacted from the outside, nor are they ever enacted once and for all.

Karen Barad

#7. The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

Frances O'Grady

#8. I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.

Roger Mahony

#9. There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

Li Keqiang

#10. I've lived this long because I didn't die.

Dirk Jan Struik

#11. I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me."
"It was your humility, wasn't it?

Derek Landy

#12. Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

Dirk Jan Struik