Desideratum Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum. — Fiona Apple
• [The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
• Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON,… — Robert Sutton Harrington
• The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to… — James Madison
• A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. — John Jay Chapman
• I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the… — Alan Dershowitz
• Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character… — Will Self
• Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food,… — Frederick Douglass
• Helmholtz is not a philosopher in the exclusive sense, as Kant, Hegel, Mansel are philosophers, but one who prosecutes physics and physiology, and acquires therein… — James Clerk Maxwell

Who Wrote These Desideratum Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Desideratum Quotes as follows:

• 1 Desideratum Quote by Frederick Douglass
• 1 Desideratum Quote by James Clerk Maxwell
• 1 Desideratum Quote by Fiona Apple
• 1 Desideratum Quote by Cassius Jackson Keyser
• 1 Desideratum Quote by Robert Sutton Harrington
• 1 Desideratum Quote by James Madison
• 1 Desideratum Quote by John Jay Chapman
• 1 Desideratum Quote by Alan Dershowitz
• 1 Desideratum Quote by Will Self