Why Things Happen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.

  • how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

  • Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

  • Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?

  • But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

  • I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.

  • Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

  • A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

  • To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

  • Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.