James Joseph Sylvester Quotes
English - Mathematician September 3, 1814 - March 15, 1897


Mathematics is the music of reason.
James Joseph Sylvester

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
James Joseph Sylvester

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
James Joseph Sylvester

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
James Joseph Sylvester


Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes
American - Author September 3, 1849 - June 24, 1909

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Sarah Orne Jewett

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
Sarah Orne Jewett

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Sarah Orne Jewett

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Sarah Orne Jewett

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
Sarah Orne Jewett

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
Sarah Orne Jewett

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
Sarah Orne Jewett

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
Sarah Orne Jewett


Louis Sullivan Quotes
American - Architect September 3, 1856 - April 14, 1924

Form follows function.
Louis Sullivan

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.
Louis Sullivan

What the people are within, the buildings express without.
Louis Sullivan

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.
Louis Sullivan

The building's identity resided in the ornament.
Louis Sullivan

In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.
Louis Sullivan

The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.
Louis Sullivan

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
Louis Sullivan

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.
Louis Sullivan

It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.
Louis Sullivan

The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man.
Louis Sullivan

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
Louis Sullivan

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.
Louis Sullivan

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
Louis Sullivan


Ferdinand Porsche Quotes
Austrian - Designer September 3, 1875 - January 30, 1951

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
Ferdinand Porsche

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
Ferdinand Porsche

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
Ferdinand Porsche

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
Ferdinand Porsche

Good design should be honest.
Ferdinand Porsche

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
Ferdinand Porsche


Charles Hamilton Houston Quotes
American - Lawyer September 3, 1895 - April 22, 1950

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
Charles Hamilton Houston

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.
Charles Hamilton Houston

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.
Charles Hamilton Houston

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
Charles Hamilton Houston


Loren Eiseley Quotes
American - Scientist September 3, 1907 - July 9, 1977


If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Loren Eiseley

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
Loren Eiseley

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
Loren Eiseley

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
Loren Eiseley

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Loren Eiseley

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
Loren Eiseley

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Loren Eiseley

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.
Loren Eiseley

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
Loren Eiseley

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
Loren Eiseley


Kitty Carlisle Quotes
American - Musician September 3, 1910 - April 14, 2007

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
Kitty Carlisle

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.
Kitty Carlisle

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.
Kitty Carlisle

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.
Kitty Carlisle

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.
Kitty Carlisle

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.
Kitty Carlisle

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.
Kitty Carlisle

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.
Kitty Carlisle

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
Kitty Carlisle

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.
Kitty Carlisle

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.
Kitty Carlisle

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.
Kitty Carlisle