Abacus Quotes

• The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .

  Jacob Bronowski

  Spring, Lying, Home

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I have an abacus at home.

  Conan O'Brien

  Home

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• I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

  Jan Koum

  Computer

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• We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.

  Danny Baker

  Weasels, Generic, Knows

  "Axed Danny Baker delivers on-air rant at his BBC London bosses" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2012.

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• Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

  Peter S. Prescott

  Thinking, Academic, Sociologists

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• Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

  John J. Geddes

  Dark, Reflection, Orange

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• Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

  J. K. Rowling

  Layers, Invisible, Decorum

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• Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus.

  Dan Chaon

  Mom, Running, Doors

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• Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that Howard must be as brimful of ecstasy as she was; but to express these feelings out loud, when the news of death was still fresh in the air, would have been tantamount to dancing naked and shrieking obscenities, and Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

  J. K. Rowling

  Air, Dancing, Feelings

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