"Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations."

-- Stanislaw Ulam

#Important Quotes

“See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare”
“We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.”
“I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only ***** make that kind of distinction.”

Source : "The GQ&A: Rob Corddry". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. July 21, 2011.
“If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects.”
“Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.”
“I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.”
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”

Source : Henry James (2015). “The Ambassadors”, p.151, Xist Publishing

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