"Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair."

-- Steven G. Krantz

#Math Quotes #Black Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.”
“Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad.”
“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
“Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.”
“I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.”
“The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.”
“I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.”
“[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.”

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