"A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms.""

-- John Edensor Littlewood

#Needs Quotes #Habit Quotes #Natural Quotes

“The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.”
“Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.”

Source : 'A Wish' (1867)
“If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare”
“We need to never consider ourselves as having 'arrived'; always trying to learn how we can change to be more like Christ”
“I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.”
“There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.”
“The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.”
“Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.”

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