"It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership."

-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Marriage Quotes #Partnership Quotes

“Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.”
“Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.”
“Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.”
“There's a lot of expectation in the Middle East that post-Obama there will be a sort of tougher U.S. line on Assad, there will be more intervention and so forth. But I don't know if that's going to be fulfilled. If there is more intervention, then I think it's going to go the same way as these other interventions that we've seen in Iraq, we've seen, to a degree, in Syria, we've seen in Libya, you know, that they do really badly. They make bad situations worse.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.”
“And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.”

Source : Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”
“Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.”
“I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it.”

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