Top 100 Ada's Quotes
#1. And so it is that a new joie de vivre creeps into Ada's soul like a moth into a trunk of woollens.
Dasa Drndic
#2. My mother's psychic says, everyone essentially wants
the same thing as everyone else, a sense of belonging, a coming home.
Ada Limon
#3. Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm.
Ada Limon
#4. Ada:
"Dude, nothing matters. You're going to go to that Christmas party looking like a million bucks and you're going to show that stupid whore who's the boss
Karina Halle
#5. ...this life is a fist
of fast wishes caught by nothing
but the fishhook of tomorrow's tug.
Ada Limon
#6. Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#7. Would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!
Charlotte Bronte
#8. It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
Ada Leverson
#9. The landing stage stood on its high crooked stilts with only one person watching the boat disappear round the bend of the river - a girl of twelve called Ada, the wet-nurse's eldest child. As
Jane Gardam
#11. Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly ...
Ada Louise Huxtable
#12. Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe.
Ada Limon
#13. Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
Ada Yonath
#14. Some of his transactions involved Ada policemen, specifically one Dennis Corvin, whom Gore described as a primary supplier
John Grisham
#15. No! I had too many variables! Two of those variables were actually the same variable, so I revised the equation and then it all made perfect sense!" Ada was truly excited. "You seem truly excited, Lady Ada," said Anna cautiously.
Jordan Stratford
#16. So what's the secret to staying together?" I asked her. "Be nice?" she offered. I laughed, but that may be it, the way a secret to losing weight is to eat less. Be nice. Don't leave. That's all.
Ada Calhoun
#17. It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#18. I don't think I've ever met a girl with a bazooka for a pet." Hunter looked both amazed and slightly frightened.
"That's Kitty," I said, pointing to the large weapon. "I got her for my tenth birthday.
Ada Adams
#19. I want to say that at various points in your marriage, may it last forever, you will look at this person and feel only rage.
Ada Calhoun
#20. Ada Taylor knelt beside me on the floor as I cried for the first time over the thought that my favorite person in the world was probably dead.
John Corey Whaley
#21. DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
Ada Yonath
#22. I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.
Ada Yonath
#23. Child: "The Major and the soldiers and Mycroft told me what war is like. They say it's the second worst thing in the world."
Man: "That's an interesting definition. What did they say is the worst thing?"
Child: "Not having anything worth fighting for in the first place.
Ada Palmer
#24. I have no idea what he wants. Maybe he needs to remind you to pack your skimpiest swimsuit." He paused. "Oh, wait, no. That's me." He grinned as I rolled my eyes.
"Why do I even try to have normal conversations with you?" I asked him. "Because you like talking to me.
Ada Adams
#25. Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
Ada Leverson
#26. Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
Ada Cambridge
#27. Desire is a tricky thing, the boiling of the body's wants,
Ada Limon
#28. Her grandfather's books [ ... ] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning; every syllable was inexpressively precious
Irene Nemirovsky
#29. called to testify in a court case. Asked to identify himself, he announced that he was the world's greatest architect. When asked how he could make such a statement, he replied, with visible enjoyment and a gleam in his eye, that he had no choice, he was under oath.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#30. It's exactly my sense of existing - a fragment, a wisp of color.
Vladimir Nabokov
#31. Razor noticed. "You know him," he said, narrowing his eyes.
I nodded.
He arched a brow. "Hmm ... know him or know-know him?"
"That's none of your business," I snapped.
Ada Adams
#32. People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
Ada Yonath
#33. Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world's Mom she said, "Sure.
Ada Palmer
#34. Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
Ada Leverson
#35. Which means, while you guys are off partying tomorrow, I'll be at home in my makeshift lab, playing with D's blood." I groaned. "You're even able to make a nice gesture sound appalling. How is that possible?" "Years of practice," he said, grinning.
Ada Adams
#36. My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
Ada Yonath
#37. Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#38. I certainly ain't saying it's impossible. But Ada, look at Perry. Do you think that's what is happening?"
She rolled her eyes and slammed the bat against her palm. "Holy fuck, yes, you retard! You have some inbreeding going down there in the South? Is that what's wrong with you?
Karina Halle
#39. Ohmigod, i'm so gonna kill Tracy for this. I didn't like Ada even before that bitch hooked up with Vic. But this party is so bad, if ex-prisoners of war attended it, they'd reminisce nostalgically about the days shit was shoved up their fingernails Camille muttered.
Kristen Ashley
#40. People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
Ada Yonath
#41. My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
Ada Yonath
#42. In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#43. Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
Barbara Kingsolver
#44. Christopher Tietjens is a sad sorry bastard who just refuses to get out of the way on the oncoming train of change.
Ada Maria Soto
#45. Well, it's more like a sentence on life," he said, grinning. "I live by three rules: Don't dwell on the past, present, or future, party hard, and never fall in love. Easy.
Ada Adams
#46. I'm a big girl. I can make my own decisions about my dance partners."
He raised his arms in defense. "All I'm saying is that the guy let you trip and fall. I worry about you dancing in someone else's arms.
Ada Adams
#47. You're destined for something great, Ada, I know this. And it's an honor to help see you through it.
Karina Halle
#48. ...that's part of what marriage means: sometimes hating this other person but staying together because you promised you would.
Ada Calhoun
#49. Fran? Frances Hill, you stop that right now! What the devil's got into you? Ada, you should be ashamed! Braying like a mule, you are! And you, Mattie Gokey ... would you like to tell me what could possibly be so funny?
Jennifer Donnelly
#50. understood then, but these past years, seeing Bridger's powers, I let myself fall into the delusion that Providence might be simple.
Ada Palmer
#51. Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#52. Have you never watched a death, reader? In slow cases like blood loss it is not so much a moment as a stretch of ambiguity - one breath leaves and you wait uncertain for the next: was that the last? One more? Two more? A
Ada Palmer
#53. He smelled like a sultry summer storm - cool, refreshing rain, sweltering, hot wind, and charged, electric thunder - all rolled up into one extremely enticing vampire being.
Ada Adams
#54. Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.
Ada Lovelace
#55. An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#56. Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.
Lord Byron
#57. As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
Ada Leverson
#58. Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...
Ada Louise Huxtable
#59. All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
Ada Leverson
#60. Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Vladimir Nabokov
#62. An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
Ada Leverson
#63. No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#64. The Futurists? ... Well, of course, they are already past.
Ada Leverson
#65. Break a promise to the dead and they'll haunt you, Ada says. Keep the promise and they'll haunt you just the same.
Jennifer Donnelly
#66. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
Ada Lovelace
#67. O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
Ada Cambridge
#68. Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you?
Ada Palmer
#69. Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
Ada Leverson
#70. But what I forgot was that it was our plan, not hers, not the one doing the dying, this was a plan for those who still had a next. See, our job was simple: keep on living. Her job was harder, the hardest.
Ada Limon
#71. Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
Ada Leverson
#72. His book, The Dreams of Ada, was published by Viking in April 1987 and was greatly anticipated by the town.
John Grisham
#74. Ada and Isabel had been unpopular in high school. They had talked incessantly of money and social position, making themselves very obnoxious to the other students.
Carolyn Keene
#75. Is there anything I can say to convince you to stay out of this?" he pleaded, his voice taking on a softer tone.
I shook my head. "Of course not."
"I didn't think so," he said miserably.
Ada Adams
#76. Oh, alright. You're no fun," he sighed. "My name is Razor."
"What kind of a name is that?"
"It's a nickname."
"What kind of a nickname is that?"
"Spike, Blade, Fang - all the good, deadly objects were already taken. It was the best I could do.
Ada Adams
#77. ...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again.
Ada Calhoun
#78. Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
Ada Yonath
#79. People have done this before, but not us.
Ada Limon
#80. She fixed things that were broken, and then began fixing things that weren't broken, or broke things so they could be fixed in ways no one understood or found particularly convenient.
Jordan Stratford
#81. There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
Ada Yonath
#82. You can always try another approach; even change your subject when a scientific strategy or experiment fails.
Ada Yonath
#83. Oh, alright," I conceded. "But if you try something, I swear I'll use my pet dagger to cut off - "
"I said I'd behave! Though, you're making it kinda hard to be good with all that talk of wanting to have your way with me."
I released my grip on his neck and smacked the top of his head.
Ada Adams
#84. There is a light at the end of every tunnel. Some tunnels just happen to be longer than others.
Ada Adams
#85. I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.
Ada Limon
#86. How do you know what a rock star feels like, Ada May? Have you ever been a rock star? I don't think so,' Beth Ann said.
'I was just guessing.'
'Well, not me. I'm not saying I feel like something when I don't have any idea what that feels like and neither do you.
Jodi Thomas
#87. Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
Ada Yonath
#88. It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
Larry Wall
#89. Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#90. Only humans can hurt one another, Ada thought; only humans falter and betray one another with a stunning, fearsome frequency. As David's family had done to him; as David had done to her. And Ada would do it too. She would fail other people throughout her life, inevitably, even those she loved best.
Liz Moore
#91. Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
Ada Lovelace
#92. Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
Ada Lovelace
#93. The unspoken philosophy of all those in love with Ada was something like this: If I have to die to get that, then death it is.
John Corey Whaley
#94. She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
Ada Leverson
#95. What I didn't like was how people talked to me
now that I was no longer single; they were nicer.
Men who never looked at me would start up a conversation,
like I was suddenly some safer form of fire.
Ada Limon
#96. People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
Ada Leverson
#97. I was told to ask you something, said Ada finally.
I know, said ELIXIR. I've been waiting.
Liz Moore
#98. Nothing under Providence is ever certain until an agent goes and tries and makes it so.
Ada Palmer
#99. The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
Ada Lovelace
#100. But that's the function I expect of you, cousin. It's why I chose you. I'll make it official. I will give you a new name. From this moment, you'll be called Breaking of the Habit, which in our tongue is Harq al-Ada. Come, cousin, don't be obtuse. My mother taught you well. Give me your Sardaukar.
Frank Herbert
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