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“I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.”
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“The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master”
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“Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.”
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“When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of science. I conceive that this is no accident, as if one bought a top hat for a wedding, and discovered later when a fire broke out, that it could be used as a water bucket.”
Source : James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2051, Рипол Классик
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“If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.”
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“You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?”
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“The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.”
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“When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.”
Source : "Speaking of Science Fiction". Book by Paul Walker, 1978.
