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I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. — John Edensor Littlewood

Then others for breath of words respect,
Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect. — William Shakespeare

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

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra. — Michael Bolton

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

Does my being half-naked bother you? — Taylor Lautner

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

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college. — G.H. Hardy

Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you. — Kathryn Littlewood

There are so many forms, I believe people are bright enough to make their own laws, more subtle ones than we've had before. — Joan Littlewood

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

The infinitely competent can be uncreative. — John Edensor Littlewood

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation. — John Edensor Littlewood

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it. — Lauren Kate

Our worth comes from the promises we keep. — Sunanda J. Chatterjee

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination. — Ed Helms

Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck. — Bertrand Russell

The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright. — John Edensor Littlewood

That's all you need? Easy. I love you.Okay? Want it louder?I love you. Spell it out schould I l-o-v-e y-o-u. Want it backwards You love I. — William Goldman

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

That was wonderful," Natasha lied.
"Not half; you are brilliant. Can I fuck you up the arse later? — D.M. Blowers

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre. — Joan Littlewood

If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route. — Joan Littlewood

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person. — Linda Cardellini

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood