[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images,… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
A mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, brought [Tomas Jefferson and John Adams] together in 1812, and they went on to exchange letters for… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“(Quoting Goethe :) "We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so… — James Howe Copy Share Image
He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if… — Daniel Coit Gilman Copy Share Image
When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The basic idea of email has remained essentially unchanged since the first networked message was sent in 1971. And while email is… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“I am in no mood to fulminate on paper--I wish the two of us were in a room together talking of what… — Carlene Bauer Copy Share Image
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called Big Sur , and I would give a ball to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“You do not seem aware, for all of your knowledge of the great world I do not frequent, of the usual response… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“All my life I have written letters - to our mother, our relatives, a wide circle of friends and acquaintance, to my… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have an almost entirely written correspondence with a few friends of mine who are really busy. We exchange quite long and… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many… — Vaginal Davis Copy Share Image
American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic.… — Dumas Malone Copy Share Image
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
I value my correspondence with writers...I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him -… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence.… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When you look at what has happened over the last few decades the natural fluctuations point in the opposite direction of what… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Subject: This is a work environment and this is harassment Mr. Zaccadelli, I am writing to inform you that your proposition has… — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond… — Josh Henderson Copy Share Image
By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets… — Mimi Pond Copy Share Image