Top 100 Minus Quotes
#1. The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.
Calvin Trillin
#2. I think there are pluses and minuses to being simpleminded. The minus is not having any sort of vision for the future. But on the plus side, my wife and I have really been happy through all of the ups and downs.
Ty Burrell
#3. Nope. It was a big fat minus sign. Which means negative. Not pregnant. No baby. Infertile. Nothing's growing in this soil.
Laurelin Paige
#4. Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#5. If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.
Rohit Shetty
#6. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston
#7. The Intellectual Transcending Equation In Life:
Occurrence Plus Perception Minus Materialistic
Reasoning Divided By Nothing Equals Spiritual
Progression, With A Remainder Of Blessings.
Calvin W. Allison
#8. I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
Albert Brooks
#9. We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.
Frederick Lenz
#10. Net Assets means the total assets minus total liabilities. The
Jigar Patel
#11. Before and after you do your best, know it that you must rely on God. Your best - no matter how great - is nothing if you minus God from the equation.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#12. I'd once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture ... you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death!
Tom Conrad
#13. Bringing a direct connection between ENTER. and MINUS, Maceo Plex delivers his CONJURE TWO EP that represents both the stripped down sound of MINUS and the atmosphere of ENTER.Ibiza!
Richie Hawtin
#14. Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.
Henry Ford
#15. If you turned in a paper with writing on it, you were guaranteed a hook from Jake Epping of the LHS English Department, and if the writing was organized into actual paragraphs, you got at least a B-minus.
Stephen King
#17. The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
Stephen Hawking
#18. Bushism is Reaganism minus the passion for freedom.
George F. Will
#19. No more Lastrygonians." Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.
Rick Riordan
#20. There is a type of warfare in which the entire pattern is made up of a collection of lesser actions, but these lesser or individual actions are not sequentially interdependent. Each individual one is no more than a single statistic, an isolated plus or minus, in arriving at the final result.
J.C. Wylie
#21. I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.
E. M. Forster
#22. Twenty-two years eight months and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha- Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis - the first case for over half a century. Sighing, Lenina went on with her work.
Aldous Huxley
#23. Although Math can't teach us how to add love or minus hate, it teaches us that every problem has a solution
Anonymous
#24. We could open up a support group."
"I'd rather stick with hot chocolate. All the warmth I need, minus the awkward moments. Oh, and it's sweet. So thanks, but no thanks.
- Maiwenn and Pauline
Natalie Herzer
#25. There are three things you never want to find in your boyfriend's locker: a sweaty jockstrap, a D minus on last week's history test, and an empty condom wrapper.
Lucky me, I'd hit the trifecta.
Gemma Halliday
#26. Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction Ella said
Rick Riordan
#27. If you consider yourself a superior type, or even if you be such, let me tell you that the sum total of such superiority, is socially, a minus quantity." I
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#28. My sex life became sort of like Diet Coke - deceptively sweet minus nutrition.
Toni Morrison
#30. It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.
Susanna Kaysen
#31. Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
Chevy Chase
#32. Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing teacher, gave it a B-minus. Do you know what that does to a a person to get a B-minus in Grief?
Joan Bauer
#33. I'm sure the holy refrigerator is packed solid with cartons of Blue Bell ice cream - times a million. All those amazing flavor combinations minus the calories and fat grams, of course. After all, we are talking about heaven here, amen?
Diane Moody
#34. The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
Sam Kean
#35. I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.
Robert Benchley
#36. Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.
Dasha Zhukova
#37. I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
[Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem.
Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]
Ovid
#38. We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#39. I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling chefs to dispense with spices in cooking.
Kevin Sinnott
#40. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
#41. Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.
Katie Aselton
#42. When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect.
Reed Farrel Coleman
#43. I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.
Lauren Willig
#44. [Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
#45. A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#48. We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.
Suze Orman
#49. To me, knowing how to do something is like cheating.
That's why I never studied in grade school. Studying made passing tests too easy. Anybody can pass a test if he studies. But I wanted to explore the furthest limit of my inh'rnt knowledge. Apparently my limit is C minus.
Gary Reilly
#50. The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.
Trevor Bailey
#51. Ben Roethlisberger is Tim Tebow minus Jesus.
Daniel Tosh
#52. Plus/minus
Positive/negative
1/0
I can/ I can't
I will/ I won't
You are/You aren't
I said/I thought
I said "I will"/I thought "I can't"
I thought "I can"/I said "You won't
David Levithan
#54. Okay then. Let's go get our girl back." "My girl," I correct him. "She's my girl." Kenji snorts as we head in the direction of the compounds. "Right. Minus the part where she's not actually your girl. Not anymore." "Shut up." "Uh-huh." "Whatever.
Tahereh Mafi
#56. George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.
Gideon Haigh
#57. Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis
Robert Holden
#58. Imagine what humans could do, if we all worked together like an ant colony...minus the queen.
Justin D. Hill
#59. I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.
Tracy McMillan
#60. And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
Bo Burnham
#61. Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch - they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit - death-ripened. We shall all end like them - just a stain in the snow.
Lawrence Durrell
#62. His lights blinked in binary read-out as he answered by voder, Eleven thousand two hundred thirty-eight with uncertainty plus-minus eighty-one representing possible identities and nulls. Shall I start program?
Robert A. Heinlein
#63. Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms
and to hold on to it
that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur
Marc Levy
#64. I had an outfit that was designed for minus 30 degrees, so I had to work with costume to strap ice packs all over me because I was boiling, even out on the glacier. I was constantly trying to unzip it and take off the hat. I was just sweating. I found it very hot.
Richard Dormer
#65. From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.
Vidya Balan
#66. There's always the question of time. Does time at 10:00 mean 10:00 sharp? Or does it mean give or take a few minutes? And a few minutes, is that plus or minus two minutes? Or plus or minus ten, or maybe a half an hour each way?
Michael Emerson
#67. Jesus plus nothing equals everything - and everything minus Jesus equals nothing.
Tullian Tchividjian
#69. The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it. Instead, the mild warming seems to be part of a natural 1,500-year climate cycle (plus or minus 500 years) that goes back at least one million years.
Fred Singer
#70. Imagine The Greatest Hits of Bobby Darin minus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you.
Haruki Murakami
#72. Tampa Bay, like any other expansion team, toiled and persevered in its infancy - but today, minus the Devil, the Rays have become one of the most exciting teams in baseball.
Tucker Elliot
#73. Over the years, the cities began to crumble. But Sam and Dean didn't.
Final tally: 6.6 billion, minus two.
Gekizetsu
#74. It's just never a good idea to compliment a girl's boobs. [ ... ] "You have nice boobs." Bad. "You have two nice boobs." Worse. "Two boobs? Perfect." F minus.
Jesse Andrews
#75. Life
luscious wet life bereft of
death, loss of empty shell
minus absent of nothing
exploding star cell
amoeba sweet algae
oxygen,
hydrogen flowering
in the vacuum of
space and magnetic motion.
H. Raven Rose
#76. She didn't love me that much, but she moved in with me. That's a plus. And then one night, I caught her making out with another dude on the driveway. That's a minus.
Greg Behrendt
#77. I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.
John Thorn
#78. Hey, you're lucky. My cabin is closest to the stables. I can hear her yelling all night: FIRST PLACE OR DEATH! AN A MINUS IS A FAILING GRADE! Leo really needs to design a gag that's better than my old sock.
Rick Riordan
#79. Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.
Bob Black
#80. Fermat's assertion that if n is any whole number and p any prime, then n multiplied by itself p times minus n is divisible by p.
Sylvia Nasar
#81. A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?
Margaret Atwood
#82. Intuition is a heart message minus the static.
Sue Thoele
#83. Figure two-, three-hundred-kilometer-an-hour winds, lightning, torrential rains. You're far enough inland to avoid the three-kilometer-high tsunami." "Basic wrath of God package, minus drowning,
James S.A. Corey
#84. God can turn any negative of life into a positive. If life takes us into the minus of negative experiences, heaven sends down a vertical line to intersect it and make all things positive. Let
S. Michael Wilcox
#85. The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.
Murray Horwitz
#86. Innards came out crossed and complex, like a tumble of plus and minus signs--the equation of human life.
M.P. Johnson
#87. If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman
#88. Impact minus twenty seconds, guys . . ." said the computer. "Then turn the bloody engines back on!" bawled Zaphod. "Oh, sure thing, guys," said the computer.
Douglas Adams
#89. God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.
Meg Cabot
#90. She moved in for a better look.It was a portrait of Bob Marley,a pretty good one,actually.No Woman, No Cry ... that's right.No teenage girls either.All right,ten points if you'Re a poet,minus twenty-five if you're in a band and minus fifty if you're into the ganja.
Sheri Meshal
#91. Minus the adverts of TV, the special effects of movies, and the trash of the Internet, live theatre is a personal means to connect with viewers. Lining up eye candy, using graphic words, and teasing or enacting bedroom antics is a lowbrow way to go about it.
Tom Jalio
#92. Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.
Clive James
#93. Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.
Aldous Huxley
#94. I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.
Noah Baumbach
#95. She felt like she was in Candy Land, minus the lollipops on the trees.
Melissa Senate
#96. We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet, likely to have a minus 15 on my IQ, likely to not go to college and likely to wear my pants below my arse.
John Amaechi
#97. Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#98. Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#99. Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.
Jim Carrey
#100. The Smurfs 2 is a great movie. The Smurfs are tiny little creatures that everybody loves. They're like Justin Bieber - minus the part about everybody loving him.
Craig Ferguson
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