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I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
— John Edensor Littlewood
You never let me talk about any of it. You just left. You never called. You never came by the studio. Why would you do that?
— A Meredith Walters
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
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
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.
— John Edensor Littlewood
I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.
— Quentin Tarantino
The infinitely competent can be uncreative.
— John Edensor Littlewood
America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
— R. Lee Ermey
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
People do not put their faith in phantoms.
— Marissa Meyer
To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.
— Choi Hong Hi
A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
— Margaret Mitchell
I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as - what I knew was that I worried a lot
— David Foster Wallace
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
— Elie Wiesel
The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.
— John Edensor Littlewood
What I'm going to miss is the competition, being, that's OK, I can watch from the house.
— Greg Gutfeld
Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.
— John Edensor Littlewood
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Those words are not a magical formula. They're not going to open my heart to you.
— Charlaine Harris
You might be a redneck if you own all the components of soap on a rope except the soap.
— Jeff Foxworthy
I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.
— Mindy Kaling
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
— John Edensor Littlewood