You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike
Americans in particular are myopic. Theyre not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. Thats what I did. I went to Indonesia. – Julie Taymor
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because theyre getting the business. – Robert Sternberg
I havent got a car or a house. Ive got a wife, but I didnt pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. Shes here with a knife at my throat! – Mackenzie Crook
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. – Stefan Banach
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. – Lewis H. Lapham
