"Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another."

-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#Principles Quotes #Lovers Quotes #Mathematical Quotes

“I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.”
“Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.”
“I've noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they're taking a picture of sort of doesn't exist anymore. They're looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person.”
“The problem with Yves Saint Laurent was that he was a man who understood his time period better than anyone, but he didn't like it. Real artists live their own lives in parallel. It's the artist who transforms his times.”
“Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.”

Source : Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.205, Island Press
“We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.”
“Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.”

Source : FaceBook post by DeVon Franklin from May 28, 2011
“When you go into a movie and you're surprised by it - these days with brand recognition being such an important thing and essentially trailers, the way trailers have evolved encouraging people not to see the film unless they've already seen the film which is kind of the paradox of marketing these days anytime that you enjoy genuine sense of wonder and surprise in the movies it's priceless.”

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