“My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.” IfsWorldUsedMotherFatherParentRageUsed To BeInsecurityJealousComes And GoesProtectivenessPoints In LifeGet Jealous Author:Felicity Kendal
“Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.” DifferentPlayHandsSchoolGirlFoundFatherLanguageDecisionClassRichTakenNeededMovedMoved OnShakespeare's Plays Author:Felicity Kendal
“I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.” PeopleThinkingMomentsTogetherEasyPerfectPartnersCleverFormulasGood LifeGlamorousBarbaraPerfect Partner Author:Felicity Kendal
“The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.” IfsWayGivingDoeLove IsOur LivesImportanceProfoundEndless Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'” SaidBigsLife IsCollegeAskingStartingPhilosopherGreekGood LifeWorth LivingStarting PointBig QuestionsGreek PhilosopherLife Is Not Worth LivingUnexamined Life Author:Arianna Huffington
“I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'” IfsHas BeensNightGuyHoursSleepInterestingFiveFourDinner Author:Arianna Huffington
“1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.” NaturalDefinitionsPrimeUnnatural Author:Aristotle
“3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?” Can DoNumbersBotherPrimeWhy BotherPrime Numbers Author:William of Ockham
“3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. According to some ancient manuscripts 9 is not a prime number, but beyond the distant horizon of the oceans, in the New World that I am going to discover, there are surely lots of them.” WorldNumbersOceanAncientPrimeHorizonNew WorldManuscriptsPrime Numbers Author:Christopher Columbus
“I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.” IfsCareEarthHeavenStarsDon't CareI Don't CarePrimeI Care Author:Giordano Bruno