"Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of acquaintance confined to occasional calls upon one another; but that is now at an end; they are drawn together and are constantly becoming more and more intimately related and connected by a thousand fresh ties, and we may confidently look forward to a time when they shall form but one body with one soul."

Source : James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.124

James Joseph Sylvester

#Life Quotes #Ties Quotes #Soul Quotes

“It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off”
“I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace,”

Source : "Reps. Rogers, Smith spar over Benghazi; Mark Sanford talks political redemption". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2013.
“No one remembers who took second place and that will neverbe me.”
“I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.”
“I often think of myself as the discoverer-in-chief.”
“I try to think and design in color.”
“I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.”
“When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.”

Source : Algernon Blackwood (2008). “Three Supernatural Classics: The Willows, the Wendigo and the Listener”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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