Variational Calculus Quotes

#1. Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

Vladimir Arnold

#2. I eat very well. I cook for my family every night. We eat a variety of things, including chicken, fish, pork, lentils, all veggies, pastas, and salads. You name it, we eat it - except salmon, which I find disgusting. Sorry, salmon.

Alicia Coppola

#3. I would never be able to lead the insane lifestyle I do, traveling all over the world, if I wasn't eating food that was simple and healthy.

Alain Ducasse

#4. The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.

Philip Yancey

#5. In Ethiopia ... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?

Joanna Lumley

#6. An orange on the table
Your dress on the rug
And you in my bed
Sweet present of the present
Cool of night
Warmth of my life

Jacques Prevert

#7. Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

Vladimir Horowitz

#8. The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

Ted Turner

#9. Early anthropology was not at all seen as art for art's sake; it was intended to facilitate the colonizer's work.

David Van Reybrouck

#10. If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.

Harmony Korine

#11. Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN.

Sharon Osbourne

#12. Being with Jake was like the ride I once took on a mechanical bull. You could not even begin to guess which way that thing would buck. All you could do was hold on as tight as you could and enjoy the ride for as long as you had it.

Kristen Ashley