Quotes About Vectors

#1. People outdoors here just scuttle in vectors from air conditioning to air conditioning. The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.

David Foster Wallace

#2. A laboring woman, though, while she endured her labor, lay at the center of something truly radiant in four dimensions; every birth everywhere, all the vectors of human evolution and migration originating and terminating at the parting of her legs.

Michael Chabon

#3. American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years?

Christopher Buckley

#4. Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.

Paul Hawken

#5. How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?

Stephanie Vaughn

#6. A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.

Douglas Adams

#7. Vectors never make the same mistake twice,That is why the warrior only risks his heart for something worthwhile.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Stars were falling across the sky myriad and random, speeding along brief vectors from their origins in night to their destinies in dust and nothingness.

Cormac McCarthy

#9. The key is to set up some rules: which combinations of motion vectors are "healthy" and "beneficial," and which combinations are "detrimental" and "harmful." The former receive a survival advantage while the latter are disfavored.

Liu Cixin

#10. What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

Robert Penn Warren

#11. The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction.

Hilary Putnam

#12. The hawk is on my fist. Thirty ounces of death in a feathered jacket; a being whose world is drawn in plots and vectors that pull her towards lives' ends.

Helen Macdonald

#13. There is no such thing as 'one sided love' in nature. Its only that two vectors are separated by barren stretches of time, space and lives.

Kartikey Singh

#14. Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.

Anthony Fauci

#15. It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

H.L. Mencken

#16. The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
theater and empty circus and empty universe
ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#17. For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'

Douglas Booth

#18. I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

Libba Bray

#19. I consider myself the queen of pugs of New York City. I'm really into my dogs. Massive pugs, massive needlepoint, massive color!

Brigid Berlin

#20. Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#21. When I'm in a relationship, I give my heart and soul to it and do it 100 percent.

Blake Lively

#22. Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

Stanislaw Lem

#23. There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Umberto Eco

#24. Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.

Lord Kelvin

#25. The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.

William Masters

#26. How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

T.K. Naliaka

#27. The assumption that the square of a unit vector
is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
quantities are non-associative.

Cargill Gilston Knott