"[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what."

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Source : The Observer, August 07, 1966.

Katharine Whitehorn

#Weather Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.”
“Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.”

Source : "Defying climate deal like appeasing Hitler-UK minister" by Peter Griffiths, af.reuters.com. July 21, 2011.
“I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.”
“Papers should include more side remarks, open questions, and such. Very often, these are more interesting than the theorems actually proved. Alas, most people are afraid to admit that they don't know the answer to some question, and as a consequence they refrain from mentioning the question, even if it is a very natural one. What a pity! As for myself, I enjoy saying 'I do not know'.”

Source : Jean-Pierre Serre (2000). “Oeuvres, Collected Papers: 1985-1998”, Springer Verlag
“There's nothing like the #â€Ž buzz of live #â€Ž theater . You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.”
“There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.”
“Strong ethics keep corporations healthy . Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation.”

Source : "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.
“Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little corner of it. Pi occupies a key place in trigonometry too. It is intimately related to e, and to imaginary numbers. Pi even shows up in the mathematics of probability”

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