Minus Quotes - Page 3

• I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.

  Rick Riordan

  Horse, Flying, Sound

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Mistake, Desire, Prejudice

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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• Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Squares, Roots, World

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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• But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.

  Philip Pullman

  Science, Thinking, Squares

  "Northern Lights". Book by Philip Pullman, 1995.

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• And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel—” “I’m not sleeping with Laurel. We’re dating.” “Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs.” “For a while. Minus the singing.

  Nora Roberts

  Song, Sleep, Moon

  Nora Roberts (2010). “Savor the Moment”, p.89, Penguin

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• What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Class, Clothes, Deeds

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Liars, Mean

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Profound, Portraits, Driving

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.150, Vintage

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• In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.

  Michael Connelly

  Running, Long, Wicked

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• It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in acidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occassional bad-hair day. I still possessed both legs and both eyes, and even my hair looked all right when I rose that Wednesday morning in late January. If I returned to bed sixteen hours later, having lost all my hair but nothing else, I would consider the day a triumph. Even minus a few teeth, I'd call it a triumph.

  Dean Koontz

  Morning, Eye, Journey

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• Life minus love equals zero.

  Rick Warren

  Zero, Purpose Driven Life

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• I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except my life really isn't all that funny if you think about it.

  Meg Cabot

  Home, Thinking, America

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Mediator #2: Ninth Key”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction Ella said

  Rick Riordan

  Zero, Six, Subtraction

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• The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

  Stephen Hawking

  Powerful, Cooking, Bangs

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• There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.

  Arthur Eddington

  Time, Knowledge, Science

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• Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of one and minus one. Together they add up to zero, nothing, nada, niente, right? Picture them together, then picture them separating-peeling apart. ... Now you have something, you have two somethings, where once you had nothing.

  John Updike

  Zero, Mean, Science

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• I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Sports, Intelligent, Speak

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• Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Eye, Years, Vision

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• On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Fire, Sight, Sides

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.304, Del Rey

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• Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms--and to hold on to it--that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur

  Marc Levy

  Lying, Heart, Feet

  Marc Levy (2005). “If Only It Were True”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.

  John Green

  Thinking, Opposites, Forever

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.16, Penguin

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• A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.

  Craig Clevenger

  Sacrifice, Stories, World

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”

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• No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.

  Rick Riordan

  Zero, Down And, Next

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• Minus my relationship with Kennedy, I had no automatic invitation to Greek Parties or events, though Chaz and Erin could invite me to some stuff since I fell under the heading of acceptable things to bring to any party: alcohol and girls. Awesome. I'd gone from independent girlfriend to party paraphernalia.

  Tammara Webber

  Girl, Party, Independent

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• I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

  Winston Churchill

  Math, Feelings, Let It Go

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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