Simon Newcomb Quotes

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

Simon Newcomb

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MathematicsBestWayFollowSee

There was a period in high school when, for some reason, I decided that suburbanites were my enemies or my rivals in a way.

Jeremy Sisto

SchoolHigh SchoolWayReasonHigh

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

John Coltrane

WorkMusicBirdThinkLearnFirst

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Matthew McConaughey

LifeTimeConflictThoughtEndLose

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

Rod Taylor

RockLuckyFirstPrettyTrendGet

I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

Mary Quant

SchoolDressedSoftLikeTeenager

Here in America, every single actor, since they were little boys, they sing and dance and perform like angels. We don't do that. We are actors who work in a theater in very classic performances or plays.

Javier Camara

WorkDanceAmericaActorAngels

I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.

Dick Dale

HandRhythmLeftDrumsDidHis

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.

Bryan Greenberg

MusicThinkTryingCareerWantOut

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

William Rehnquist

ShadowYouSayIndividualWouldAny

I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought there aren't a lot of rap groups that can say they have a documentary done about them, so my attitude was like, 'Shoot, why not?' I'm sure there are a lot of people that would like to take our place. I felt like we should all embrace it.

Phife Dawg

AttitudePeopleThoughtPlaceKnow

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

Shelley Berkley

GoodConstructionEndYouProject

I was a real mummy's girl - still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I'm still working out. I love that man!

Shakira

LoveFatherGirlManRealOut

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