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I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
— John Edensor Littlewood
The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life.
— Aurora Levins Morales
sometimes strengers put a cute smile on our face
— Amit Kumar
I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.
— James Purefoy
The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.
— John Edensor Littlewood
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.
— John Edensor Littlewood
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.
— John Edensor Littlewood
I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French.
— Andrea Pirlo
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.
— John Edensor Littlewood
It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
— Mary Pickford
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Bigger people beat up little people.
— Chip Kell
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.
— John Edensor Littlewood
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
— John Edensor Littlewood
You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.
— Emily Bronte
The first step to greatness is to be honest.
— Samuel Johnson
A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.
— John Edensor Littlewood
You deserve a husband who'd cut off his own dick before he'd cheat on you, Rach. You do." "Maybe we can put that in my Match profile,
— Kristan Higgins
The infinitely competent can be uncreative.
— John Edensor Littlewood
The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.
— John Edensor Littlewood