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E. T. Bell Quotes

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

E. T. Bell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: February 7, 1883 - December 21, 1960

Topics

Doubt Silly Vice Quest Pretty Very

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.

Jerry Saltz

Life Style Year Early New Personal

In a tripartite government with its checks and balances, we have lost the balances.

John Fleming

Government Lost Checks And Balances

I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

Anna Nicole Smith

Bad Know Want Going Actress Just

Although even light exercise is associated with a lowered risk of some other types of cancer, for breast cancer, it appears that leisurely strolls don't appear to cut it.

Michael Greger

Light Exercise Risk Cancer Cut Even

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

John Podhoretz

Job Presidency Electoral

When the script is finished, and you're sitting around at a table read, and all the actors are reading the words that you've written, and you're hearing it out loud for the first time, that is always, every single time, no matter what, a magical process.

Shonda Rhimes

Time Words Reading Process You

My parents didn't speak English. They learned it little by little. They realized that education was the ticket to a better future in their own rudimentary way. They kept the house clean, kept us on the straight and narrow, and none of us ever got into trouble with the law.

Tony Cardenas

Education Future Parents Law Better

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.

Robert Wagner

Kid Europe Working Thrill Ford John

I really love that: bringing people together and feeling the love.

Romy Madley Croft

Love Together People Feeling Really

Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs?

Missy Elliott

Life You Things Happen Three Write

The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

Douglas Rushkoff

Moment Experience Focus Forward End

I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

Cheryl James

Age Time Myself Day Me Remember