Quotes About Long Division

#1. The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.

Jane Asher

#2. Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.

Kiese Laymon

#3. I pushed the door open, slow as long division.

Lemony Snicket

#4. Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life ... Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities ...

William Alexander Percy

#6. Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought us algebra. Also the numbers we use, including a symbol for nothing, which Europeans had never had before. You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Whoever had invented long division has a lot to answer for.

Joan Lingard

#8. Nanny Piggins lost the Vegetable Peeling, Gutter Cleaning, and Long Division Explaining tests as well. She got caught telling Michael, 'Don't bother to learn that. Long division is a waste of brain space, when you can just buy a calculator.' Which is only the truth.

R.A. Spratt

#9. Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators.

Ann Patchett

#10. He was convinced this was a bribe, a kickback, to some Pentagon big shot, and he wanted proof. But that was a tall order, even to someone as brilliant as your brother. It's a little like understanding algebraic combinatorics if you still don't get long division.

Joseph Finder

#11. Pimpin' ain't easy and neither is long division

Yahtzee Croshaw

#12. The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war is nothing other than a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty.

Vladimir Lenin

#13. It has long been suspected, but never proved or disproved (and there is a one-million-dollar prize for doing either), that there is a real division between 'hard' and 'easy' problems that reflects the amount of calculating time that needs to be used to solve them.

Anonymous

#14. When you follow your desires, your fears fade.

Jackie Ruka

#15. A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.

R.D. Laing

#16. We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.

Raul Grijalva

#17. There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

Luo Guanzhong

#19. You are your own hero. Do not wait for someone to save you, rescue you or tell you that you are ok. Be the hero of your own story and never, ever let them make you the victim.

John Goode

#20. Jane Greyson had once told me that my voice was one of the Ancients - old and wise.

Millicent Ashby

#21. And, as in all fairy tales, there was bloodshed, there was loss.

Jennifer McMahon

#22. We humans are obsessed with lights ... Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

Diane Ackerman

#23. All my ghosts had vanished; the retribution that they sought had been exacted. I had nothing more to give, and nothing to fear.

Abraham Verghese

#24. I like Sergio Martinez. I think he's strong, he's gritty, he's got plenty of heart, he's not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.

Bernard Hopkins

#25. The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Benjamin Cardozo

#26. The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi