The Devil's Arithmetic Memorable Quotes

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all. ~ David Levithan

I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains. ~ Jonathan Weeks

Your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions). ~ Paul Dilascia

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it! ~ Hermann Weyl

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important. ~ Dorothea Dix

Preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry). ~ Alan Watts

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic ... It is all the more serious since, with the loss of my rule V, not only the foundations of my arithmetic, but also the sole possible foundations of arithmetic seem to vanish. ~ Gottlob Frege

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic. ~ Bill Nye

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it. ~ Thomas Browne

I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers. ~ Frank Zappa

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic. ~ Erskine Bowles

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren't very lovable. ~ Aidan Chambers

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. ~ David Berlinski

My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk. ~ Michael Jordan

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. ~ John McCarthy

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan. ~ Jenna Elfman

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them. ~ Plato

The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows. ~ Bill Johnson

If you want to create a memorable company, you have to fill your company with memorable people. ~ Bill Taylor

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so. ~ Shelley Berman

I've never met a very memorable cobbler. ~ Carson Cistulli

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths. ~ Gottlob Frege

there is no devil," jack said. "we are the devil. the devil is us. ~ Terry Goodkind

My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment. ~ Jason Mraz

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. ~ Gottfried Leibniz

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. ~ Jean Cocteau

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up. ~ Wayne Dyer

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. ~ Bill Gosper

If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable. ~ Cameron Crowe

To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.
A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records. ~ Sarah Manguso

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. ~ Benjamin Franklin

It's shameful for a devil to be good. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available. ~ Alain De Botton

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives ... ~ Walker Percy

What makes a man real is when his actions and words become memorable. ~ Jennifer Ott

Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable. ~ Chris Howard

Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable. ~ Anatoly Karpov

I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are. ~ Alan Greenspan

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. ~ Bertrand Russell

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do. ~ Dennis Eckersley

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage. ~ Lorna Luft

For me, being memorable is more important than winning. ~ Ricki Lake

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. ~ Plato

I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V. ~ Jud Tylor

You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil. ~ DMX

Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable. ~ Philippe Petit

Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list. ~ Catherine Crier

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else. ~ Freya Stark

Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. ~ Hannah More

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo ~ Kathryn Lasky

God does arithmetic. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence. ~ Harold Davenport

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too ... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down. ~ Bob Marley

Does the devil know he is a devil? ~ Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Memorable customer service can only take place in a human-to-human situation. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs. ~ Keith Devlin

To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. ~ Rajneesh

It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple. ~ Steve Zahn

To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story. ~ Tim O'Brien

Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi. ~ Nicholas Kristof

Sometimes I get so frustrated with folk talking about how busy the devil is. Own your mess! You might be the devil. Stop inviting MESS into your life and blaming the devil! ~ J'son M. Lee

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. ~ Justin Kaplan

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication. ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read. ~ Suzanne Collins

A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique. ~ Primo Angeli

If you can't be brilliant, at least be memorable ~ David Ogilvy

He was the devil.
Calm, unfettered, and unaffected.
Leading me down a sordid path. ~ Ellie Fox

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. ~ Oliver Sacks

I am the Devil and I'm here to do the Devil's business. ~ Tex Watson

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. ~ Bertrand Meyer

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try. ~ Andrew Marvell

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms. ~ William E. Gladstone

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief. ~ Alan Moore

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. ~ Claude Debussy

Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional ~ Carmine Gallo

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. ~ Howard Aiken

Make your writing memorable. ~ A.D. Posey

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task. ~ G.H. Hardy

What makes your brand stick and tick is your ability to make it memorable ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences. ~ Henry David Thoreau

ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a talent well worth watching. ~ Brandon Massey

Of course, De Niro has had a long history of memorable performances. Everyone knows 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull,' but 'Awakenings' really did something for me. ~ Adriane Lenox

Don't let the devil fool you! Unless he's handsome. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California. ~ Deb Caletti

No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk. ~ Narciso Rodriguez

NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil. ~ Marilyn Manson

I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil. ~ Pauly Shore

The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know. ~ Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~ Sebastian Faulks

The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs
he will give the devil his due. ~ William Shakespeare

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable. ~ Robert Englund

Make your brand memorable or risk fading out! ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument. ~ Plato

But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.
The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil's wife
which made me worse. I howled in my cell.
If the Devil is gone then how could this be hell? ~ Carol Ann Duffy

A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster. ~ James Berardinelli

The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait. ~ Ambrose

Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive. One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic ... ~ Jane Yolen