"Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of mathematics." Queens are regal, but they are also largely decorative, and this nuance was not lost on Gauss."

-- Ian Stewart

#Beauty Quotes #Art Quotes #Queens Quotes

“I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.”
“Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]”
“I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.”
“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”
“The game was easy for me as a kid. I had to play a while to find out how hard it is.”
“A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”
“If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.”
“Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art.”

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