Top 54 Quotes About Fractions
#1. Ishy, you got any homework?"
"If it's fractions, I'll help you," Sam said.
"Hen still doesn't know how to do fractions."
"I have spelling words I have to mesmerize," Ishmael said
"Those words will never know what hit them" Sam said.
Nick Wilgus
#2. You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don't do fractions.
John Connolly
#3. During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.
Darell Hammond
#4. Many different elements can form isomers, but only a few elements on the periodic table, like hafnium, can form isomers that last more than fractions of a second - and might therefore be turned into weapons.
Sam Kean
#5. I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left on the page but a line that says x = whatever it is that is wrong with me.
Patricia McCormick
#6. We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments.
Joshua Gaylord
#7. It was a strange way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years!
Emily Bronte
#8. This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.
Marvin Minsky
#9. There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room.
Shaun Derry
#10. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
Thomas Carlyle
#11. Oh, don't worry about that," said the Mathemagician as he scooped up the pieces. "We use the broken ones for fractions.
Norton Juster
#12. I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.
Agatha Christie
#13. We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
#14. The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.
Greg Iles
#15. MiSSS SScott
points to the numbers
along the wall.
I count up to twenty.
The class claps
on its own.
I'm furious,
unable to explain
I already learned
fractions and how to purify water.
So this is what dumb feels like. I hate, hate,
hate it.
Thanhha Lai
#16. When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!
Mark Lowry
#17. Multiplication is vexation, division is as bad, the rule of three perplexes me and fractions drive me mad!
(the story girl)
L.M. Montgomery
#18. Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions - say 10 percent - of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion.
Carl Sagan
#19. Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
George Carlin
#20. The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions
Ogden Nash
#21. He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw the handwriting on the wall, set about to give them back their humanity.
Trinh T. Minh-ha
#22. If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy) ...
Doug Pierce
#23. Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.
Ian Hacking
#24. Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.
Aldo Leopold
#25. I asked my wife, 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you
rate me as a lover?' She said, 'You know I'm no good
at fractions.'
Rodney Dangerfield
#27. The same system that once gave us subprime mortgage collateralized debt obligations no investor could possibly truly understand now gave us stock market trades that occurred at fractions of a penny at unsafe speeds using order types that no investor could possibly truly understand.
Michael Lewis
#28. Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.
Steven Wright
#29. Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.
Charles Frazier
#30. The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
Robert Brault
#31. last section), we can solve the equation by eliminating the fractions. We can accomplish this by
multiplying each term of the equation
Donny Brusca
#32. Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each..
Charles Jaffe
#33. As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.
Bobby Wallace
#34. Later: I'm seeing everything in pieces and fractions, like a series of photographs shuffled randomly together.
Lauren Oliver
#35. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#36. Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Charles Dickens
#37. In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.
Matt Emmons
#38. The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.
Elsa Barker
#39. Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#40. Goals should be broken down into parts, and then think over the plan of their implementation
Sunday Adelaja
#41. Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#42. Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
Marshall McLuhan
#43. I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.
Warren Buffett
#44. It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.
Zach Braff
#45. We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
Desmond Tutu
#47. Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#48. A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece
Lyn Hejinian
#49. Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
Robert A. Heinlein
#50. If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.
John Yudkin
#51. Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
Ada Lovelace
#52. The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world ...
Terence McKenna
#54. In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.
John Tukey
