#con

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship. ↗

— Donna Rice

#agreed #brief #confront #ending #face-to-face

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#could #election #figures #gay #gay movement

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. ↗

— Andy Richter

#briefly #considered #doing #edgar #i

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#conner #husband #marriage #moment #personal

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' ↗

— Arthur H. Compton

#difficult #ever #faith #god #in the beginning

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#friends #himself #lazy #out #person

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. ↗

— William Congreve

#confidence #ears #his #integrity #little

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#angle #city #contains #ever #indirect

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

#built #came #composer #composers #concept