#Math Quotes #Euclid Quotes
“From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if they are, whereas comedians, I think, are openly happy to play on the idea that they all compete with each other to get the laughs. There's something about comedy, I think, that encourages that. There's this kind of schoolboy sense of wanting to top the other person that we play off of to show them competing for who's smarter or cleverer.”
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“Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One”
“Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.”
“In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.”
“When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.”
“I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.”
“The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.”
“An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.”
Edna Ferber Novelist
Emily Dickinson Poet
Mary Oliver Poet
Nancy Milford Biographer
Nikki Giovanni Writer
Robert Frost Poet
Sara Teasdale Poet
William C. Bryant Poet
William Carlos Williams Poet
