Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Life is a constant creation. It is a moment by moment, instant by instant creation. I don’t mean by this that it… — Albert Low Copy Share Image
Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of… — William James Copy Share Image
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous. — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk… — Pedro Winter Copy Share Image
Those revolutions are not strictly incessant; they occur in discrete rushes which are separated from each other by spans of comparative quiet.… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can… — Zeno of Elea Copy Share Image
The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to… — Mary Fulbrook Copy Share Image
The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in… — Mildred Blaxter Copy Share Image
Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
If you think about even very common examples like, say, something that you would build, like a clock or a car or… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image