Portia Doubleday famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

  • And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.

  • The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

  • An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

  • I never use a computer.

  • The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

  • Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

  • I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

  • Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

  • If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.