Famous quotes containing the words lie, algebra and/or valued:
“... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one’s notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one’s dearest readers.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“A person far from home is not valued highly, but goods imported from afar are.”
—Chinese proverb.