Zero Quotes - Page 29

• And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city

  Haruki Murakami

  Hands, Cities, Trying

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Elephant Vanishes”, p.238, Random House

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• Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Real, Stupid, Islamic

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• What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

  Sam Harris

  Dna, One Day, Inheritance

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Numbers, Tennis, Anorexia

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.183, Scholastic UK

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• So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Cities, Numbers

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• Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an older-than-dirt-badass vampire to indulge in. The only thing that would surprise me more would be if you pulled out a rubber ducky. -Kira to Mencheres

  Jeaniene Frost

  Badass, Indulge In, Vampire

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• I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

  Mira Grant

  Suicidal, Gun, Motorcycle

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• Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

  James Joyce

  Space, Dawn, Degrees

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.759, Delphi Classics

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• The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it.

  Tina Fey

  Golf, Kitchen, Clubs

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. "What?" he asked. "They're quite comfortable." He lifted on to look at it, and the ears wobbled in the air. "Of course they are," she said. Just when she thought Myrnin was getting his mental act together, he'd do something like that. Or maybe he was just messing with her. He liked to do that, and his dark eyes were fixed on her now, assessing just how weirded-out she was. Which, on the grade scale of zero to Myrnin, wasn't much.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Dark, Air

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.15, Penguin

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• In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

  Louis Sachar

  Thinking, Way, Helping

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.119, Yearling

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• Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.

  Louis Sachar

  Way, Worried, Said

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• And for those of you who want to start any trouble, I have a zero tolerance policy. . . .

  Simone Elkeles

  Tolerance, Want, Trouble

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• It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

  Barack Obama

  Important, Privacy, Inconvenience

  Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• I lean toward a flat tax. But I want to make it real flat, like ZERO.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Want, Flat Tax

  "Four Pinocchios for Ron Paul". voices.washingtonpost.com. November 16, 2007.

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• If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

  Jaime Lerner

  Creativity, Two, Want

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• I like those blow-up beds. "This becomes a full size bed in three minutes!" Well, a mattress kicks your ass. Zero seconds. "Yeah, but you can store this thing." You can store a bed, too - in the bedroom.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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• Beauty is everywhere and it comes in all different forms. Many times I don't find a size zero girl amazing, I find her really shockingly thin or small, and I think that beauty comes in all different forms. Beauty is about how you feel. There are plenty of people who are amazing to look at who are super beautiful, and then there are plenty of people who are easy to look at who are not beautiful at all, they open their mouth or they have an attitude or they are cruel, and they look hideous suddenly.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Beautiful, Girl, Attitude

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• Hover boards, unfortunately, currently violate the laws of physics. Supermagnets exist, but they have to be cooled to near absolute zero, and they are extremely expensive. So Michael J. Fox's hover boards are not possible until we invent room temperature super conductors.

  Michio Kaku

  Law, Boards, Rooms

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.

  Michio Kaku

  Cutting, Thinking, Games

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Views, Years, America

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• There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Couple, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.

  Bernard Lietaer

  Growth, Population, Would Be

  Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

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• Marco Rubio, as an example, he's got no money, zero.I think that's fine, that's OK, maybe it's good politically to say you owe money because you overborrowed on your credit cards. He's got nothing. I mean, he's got nothing.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Thinking, Example

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Fall, People

  "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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