#sharp

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. ↗

— David Hilbert

#aside #assist #casting #complicated #developments

I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#could #crisp #deliver #earth #ever

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#discrimination #dull #good #great #great literature

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going. ↗

— Reed Hundt

#canvas #exactly #get #give #going

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#clever #joke #noted #philistine #pleased

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue. ↗

— George W. Bush

#going #quick #sharp #tongue #year

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something. ↗

— James Carville

#elbows #sharp #something #want #you

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affects #familiar #familiar things #finding #foreign

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#brought #carrying #fact #few #forever

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#coming #energy #following #how #i