Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends. " My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had. " In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said. . . "
Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.
The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.
It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.
the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom I would have joined After a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names?
But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.
And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.