Top 37 Mac Lane Quotes
#1. Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
Robert A. Heinlein
#2. Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be
calling pubs poos?"
"Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.
Karen Marie Moning
#3. I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.
David Guterson
#4. In one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes or contradictions will arise. In reality there is now no guarantee of this sort of security ...
Saunders Mac Lane
#5. The window to the past opened up to her like a dragon's maw, dark and jagged, an abyss licked with fire.
Lara Adrian
#6. Sun, moon, and stars, I told him. He inclined his head. Of all the years, this one with you has been my finest. Fire to my ice, Mac. Frost to my flame, Jericho. Forever, we said, and it was a vow far more powerful and binding than any ring or piece of paper.
Karen Marie Moning
#7. Don't you know I'd burn in hell for a single taste of you?
Penelope Ward
#8. It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.
Sharon Salzberg
#9. Home, Ms. Lane?" His deep voice was gently amused.
"I have to call it something," I said morosely. "They say home is where the heart is. I think mine's satin-lined
and six feet under.
Karen Marie Moning
#10. You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man."
"Screw you, Barrons."
"I'm not that man, either.
Karen Marie Moning
#11. Psychotic rapists don't have friends."
"I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered."
"Ha."
-Mac and V'Lane
Karen Marie Moning
#12. He is so beautiful that he makes a part of my soul weep. I don't understand those tears. They aren't like the ones I cry for Alina. They aren't made of water and salt. I think they're made of blood.
Karen Marie Moning
#13. But we have to
No we don't.
But we can't
Yes we can.
But she doesn't
She'll figure it out.
But it's
Not your fault and not your problem.
But I'm the one
Bloody hell, Ms. Lane, how many "buts" are you going to throw at me besides the only one I want?
Karen Marie Moning
#14. Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you.
Javier Sierra
#15. He moves in, standing close without touching. He doesn't need to. I sometimes think our atoms are so glad to see each other that they send little messengers back and forth, ferrying desire, strength, and love between the islands we are.
Karen Marie Moning
#16. Stop staring at my dick," he growled.
Oh, yes it was definitely an illusion. "Barrons loved me staring at his dick,"I informed it. "he would have been happy if I'd stared at his dick all day long, composing odes to its perfection.
Karen Marie Moning
#17. And you can tell Darroc that Ms. Lane is mine. If he wants her, he can bloody well come and get her
Karen Marie Moning
#18. The notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.
Saunders Mac Lane
#19. The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you?
I'm asking the questions tonight.
If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.
Karen Marie Moning
#22. Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.
Gordon Willis
#23. Do your thing, Ms. Lane. you might be criminally young, but the night is not.
Karen Marie Moning
#24. Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality.
Saunders Mac Lane
#25. The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of sets but functions between sets. This can be done by using the language of categories and universal constructions.
Saunders Mac Lane
#26. And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or perhaps you gouged it with one of your pretty pink nails?
I was really beginning to wonder what his hang-up with pink was, but I didn't resent the sarcasm in his voice.
Karen Marie Moning
#27. No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.
William E. Burrows
#28. Mac: "It's not the sidhe-seers." He stopped and went very still. JZB: "Who is it?" Mac: "The MacKeltars." He was silent a long moment. Then he began to laugh, softly. JZB: "Well played, Ms. Lane." Mac: "I had a good teacher." JZB: "The best. Hop on one foot, Ms. Lane." Mac and Barrons
Karen Marie Moning
#29. Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?
Karen Marie Moning
#33. I want us to be ... what is your word? Friends."
"Psychotic rapists don't have friends."
"I was unaware you were a psychotic rapists or I would not have offered."
(Mac & V'lane)
Karen Marie Moning
#34. You had something. What was it?" he demanded.
"An alcohol-laced kiss," I said tightly. "Two, to be precise."
"From who?"
"From whom,I believe is the correct phrasing."
"All right, from-the-fuck-whom, Ms. Lane?"
Mac and Barrons
Karen Marie Moning
#35. Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see.
Karen Marie Moning
#36. We were watching Barrons.
Why were you watching Barrons?
Barrons needs watching.
Karen Marie Moning
#37. The paranoid one's wards are still active. They keep me several feet from the building."
"But not his car," I said, a smile tugging at my lips. Barrons would go nuts if he knew that V'lane had touched his Viper. And stretched out on it nude? He'd have an aneurysm.
Karen Marie Moning
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