#mati

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. ↗

— Mark Twain

#clever #exclamation-point #writing #writing-advice

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#gaede #god #mathematics #peer-review #physics

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#dramatic #funny #life #same

We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease. ↗

— Smith Dodie

#marriage

That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek, and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola. How many it had cost in the ammassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#men

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. ↗

— Katharine Anthony

#biographer #constructions #dramatic #lives #none

They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#math

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#been #body talks #clinical #constant #crimes

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ↗

— Mark Twain

#comes #information #interesting #know #most

It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#because #certain #defenses #different #how