"A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []"

-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

#Work Quotes #Littles Quotes #Interest Quotes

“I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.”
“I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.”
“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”

Source : Quoted in Abby Adams, An Uncommon Scold (1989)
“A famous violinist once said. Music transcends words. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.”
“What's really interesting, though, is that some people in the Messirya are starting to see Darfuri rebels - so non-Arab, [from the] Justice and Equality Movement - have moved over into Southern Kordofan, which is supposed to be a Messirya stronghold, and started recruiting Messirya to go and fight against the Khartoum government in Darfur. Just another example of how everything in Sudan is interlinked.”
“I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.”
“The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.618, 1895.
“It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.”

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