Firing famous quotes

I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician.

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

I was unlucky, like my country.

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

We can get so much out of golf. I know I have, and I'd like to see the same for you. Golf is the game of a lifetime, one in which you can get better and better. It's not what you do that counts, but what you attempt to do.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.

To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.