The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.


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Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-bo...
PETE DU PONT
Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W.E.B. DU BOIS
After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
a quality of thought, a state of mind.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-eve...
ELIZE DU TOIT
Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
MARQUISE DU DEFFAND
The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.
MME. DU DEFFAND
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
He is as sensitive as a scouring pad.
ANITA DU PLESSIS
I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me.
ELIZE DU TOIT
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte. - Distance doesn't matter; it is ...
MARQUISE DU DEFFAND
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
What trail of thought, confused and indirect, drove through those minds of theirs, to cloud their ju...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhap...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
JOACHIM DU BELLAY
When you dance together, there's a fabulous interaction. It's quite intimate. You're tou...
ANTON DU BEKE
My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be th...
ANTON DU BEKE
A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
When Stephen talked about stalking chamois his whole expression changed. The features became more aq...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; no...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted....
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
The thing about me is that I love variety. I like to try new things, and I don't want to be pinn...
ANTON DU BEKE
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striv...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-cons...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for ...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, wh...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then retu...
JOACHIM DU BELLAY
I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, wha...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
You really oughta warn a guy when you're going all glamorous on him, so he'd be prepared.
ROSAMOND DU JARDIN
This is what it means to be a fanatic - but a fanatic, that is to say, in a very special sense. It h...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
I sit with Sha...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
Seen on her own, the woman was not so remarkable. Tall, angular, aquiline features, with the close-c...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and ener...
W.E.B. DU BOIS
I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.
ANTON DU BEKE