"The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself think the danger is serious; either a reasonable amount of concentration leads to new ideas or methods of obvious interest, or else one just leaves the problem alone. "Perfect numbers" certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm.”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.74, Cambridge University Press
“It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.”
“The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.”
“I really like performing for people.”
“Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.”

Source : FaceBook post by Cecelia Ahern from Apr 30, 2013
“Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.”

Source : Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.215, A&C Black
“Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.”
“I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.”

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