Likelihood Of Getting Quotes

#1. Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

Gary Wolf

#2. Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

Peter Elbow

#3. The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

Hal Roach

#4. I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

Claire Danes

#5. I raised an eyebrow at him. "Don't be that guy. Didn't you know that talking to someone while they're reading a book ups the likelihood of you getting stabbed by like four hundred percent?

Staci Hart

#6. Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Coco Chanel

#7. My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

Jeffrey Toobin

#8. Every thing is pretty that is young.

Samuel Richardson

#9. We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

Ann Veneman

#10. Vera looked at me, and her eyes filled with tears. She does this sometimes, especially when I'm being hateful and difficult; she responds by having all the feelings I'm refusing to have. Now she reached over and took my hand, and we both began to cry.

Nora Ephron

#11. When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

Annie Leibovitz

#12. Today I'm feeling uncharacteristically chiaroscuro, and I don't know what that means for my future, or as a word.

Jarod Kintz

#13. I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

Phil Collins

#14. You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

Publilius Syrus

#15. I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

Michael Keaton

#16. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

Joseph Addison

#17. As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

Jennifer Gilmore

#18. In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

Reinhold Messner

#19. All of the information that we were getting up to that time from the NRC people, from our people who knew something about nuclear power, was that the breach of the core was not a likelihood to happen.

William Scranton

#20. For decades now, the Democrats have had a good gig buying the votes of government workers with outrageous salaries, benefits and work rules - and then sticking productive earners with the bill. But, now, we're out of money.

Ann Coulter