Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

Source Unknown

Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.

Kimberly Kinrade

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

James Baldwin

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

Edward Thorndike

Next Big Thing -- you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched.

Chris O'Donnell

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

Oscar Wilde

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

Richard Russo

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

David Carradine

Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.

Sylvia AshtonWarner