“In school, I couldn't see any sense to reading, writing, and arithmeti...” — Lee Marvin Quote

In school, I couldn't see any sense to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sure, they kicked me out, but for trifles, like continual daydreaming and smoking, that wouldn't be grounds for expulsion nowadays.

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

It was the Marines who taught me how to act. After that, pretending to be rough wasn't so hard.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

My father was tough. At least, he thought so, and I guess I have a lot of his traits.

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect.

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.