William Kingdon Clifford Quotes

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

William Kingdon Clifford

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GoodCommon SenseBadSoundDepend

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

John Edgar Wideman

WritingBasketballWorldGameYou

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Amos Bronson Alcott

FriendshipWorldFriendsTakeUs

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Michel de Montaigne

IgnoranceManRestPillowHeadHis

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

Jonathan Galassi

PoetryThinkFeelingsDeepestAlways

I am a workaholic. I am very restless, and I am always looking for good work. I don't act for the heck of it; I do it because I love it.

Disha Patani

WorkLoveGoodI AmLookingAlways

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

Denzel Washington

MotherLightChildDoorSisterSaid

Women need to think about where they've been, where they are, where they're going, and how they're going to get there.

Denise Morrison

WomenThinkNeedWhereGoingGet

I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for.

Anupam Kher

ConfidentAchieveOvercomeOutSure

Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.

Richard Engel

TimeConflictFlyOverSideStarted

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello

LoveMenSpeakOnlyWouldDiscover

Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.

Evan Bayh

ChangeGoodPeopleGood PeopleSee

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

TruthSchoolLawTruth IsGoAlways

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