#fr

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#endowed #feeling #frequently #instruments #many

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#death #feet #freezes #got #hate

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#about #africa #ago #clinton #disappointed

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? ↗

— Joan Didion

#anyone #before #choice #choices #devoid

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#busting #dark #except #i #into

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. ↗

— Voltaire

#dregs #excellent #froth #middle #top

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#archives #been #comb #diaries #free

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#different #fannie #freddie #good #mortgage