Subtract Quotes

66 Subtract quotes by 61 unique authors

Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message:… — Jonathan Franzen
The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and… — Learned Hand
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract.… — Ellen Goodman
Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to… — Urs Fischer
What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ. — Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget. — Ani DiFranco
Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive. — Kool Moe Dee
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. — Ian Fleming
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct. — Fran Lebowitz
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. — Joyce Carol Oates
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. — Petrarch
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education. — Jodi Rell
If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it… — Nancy Pearl
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in… — Thomas Wolfe
Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic… — Harper Lee
Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the… — Neal Stephenson
DEMON MATH What is JUST in a world you've ripped in two as if there could be a half for me a half for you… — Kami Garcia
Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what… — William T. Vollmann
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. — Epicurus
Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger. — Steven Moffat

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