Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Marshall

I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.

Leo Tolstoy

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Leo Tolstoy

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Lady Gaga

If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Lewis Black

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

Lewis Carroll

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

Lewis Carroll

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

Karl Rove

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

Karl Popper

We never know what we are talking about.

Randall Munroe

I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.

Randall Munroe

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Tom Lehrer

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Steve Wozniak

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

Peter Lynch

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

Peter Lynch

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Peter Hilton

Mathematics is for lazy people.

Raymond Smullyan

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

Tom Hayden

It was gonna be a race [2016] that set a foundation for the Left in the future. But given the math, I didn't think he was gonna make it. And so I started to shift to Hillary [Clinton] and to discussions of the platform and discussions of what to do.

Tim Dorsey

A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders edge in one category. The basic math of a tropical storm.

Stephen Hawking

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Stendhal

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

Spike Jonze

I am better at math than spelling.

Sigrid Agren

I've always liked all the sciences like math, physics and biology

Shaun White

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

Sam Trammell

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

Robertson Davies

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

Robert Toth

I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

Robert Towne

What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about movement - screenwriting is related to math and music, and if you zig here, you know you have to zag there. It's like the descriptions for a piece of music - you go fast or slow or with feeling. It's the same.

Virgil

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.