Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benoit Mandelbrot

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

Charles Spurgeon

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

Carl Sandburg

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Dirk Benedict

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Ashwin Sanghi

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

Eleanor Porter

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

Albert Einstein

Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

Bill Dixon

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Cameron Mackintosh

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

Ben Katchor

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

Mark Twain

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

John Osborne

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Katharine Hepburn

People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

Rumi

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Richard Moe

There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

Beck

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

Beck

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

C. S. Lewis

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

Cathy Moriarty

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

Cecil Beaton

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Carl Sagan

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

Berkeley Breathed

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

Bill Budge

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

Bertrand Russell

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.