Double Negative Sayings

#1. Indeed, cancer's emergence in the world is the product of a double negative: it becomes common only when all other killers themselves have been killed.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven't seen nobody, you're actually saying that you have seen somebody.

Michael Monroe

#3. Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Julian Barnes

#4. Well, technically, we'd be re-stealing them," he said dryly. "It's kind of like a double negative.

Ally Carter

#5. I don't know much about grammar, but I think kale salad is what they call a double negative.

Jim Gaffigan

#6. The Immaculate Reception became the Zapruder Film of sports.

Stephen J. Dubner

#7. You can only do so much theatre.

Victor Garber

#8. Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.

Sylvester Stallone

#9. So while Pauling struggled with his model, Watson and Crick turned theirs inside out, so the negative phosphorus ions wouldn't touch. This gave them a sort of twisted ladder - the famed double helix.

Sam Kean

#10. At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.

Lydia Davis

#11. Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

J.I. Packer

#12. What ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor and onto a craft that in a few hours would land us in a place of which we had no memories and where no one knew our name.

Alain De Botton

#13. The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#14. It is true that "atheism" is a negative word, but so is "nonfiction." They are double negatives. Both words tell you that what you are getting is real, not pretend. Those of

Dan Barker

#15. Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

Euripides

#16. At the meeting of our lips, peacocks went into hiding, elephants suffered memory loss, camels developed a maddening thirst, and dinosaurs long thought to be extinct turned up on the evening news.

Tom Robbins

#17. People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence.

Leona Lewis