Zero Quotes - Page 29

• Hover boards, unfortunately, currently violate the laws of physics. Supermagnets exist, but they have to be cooled to near absolute zero, and they are extremely expensive. So Michael J. Fox's hover boards are not possible until we invent room temperature super conductors.

  Michio Kaku

  Law, Boards, Rooms

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Degrees

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• I like those blow-up beds. "This becomes a full size bed in three minutes!" Well, a mattress kicks your ass. Zero seconds. "Yeah, but you can store this thing." You can store a bed, too - in the bedroom.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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• I met the girl who works at the Doubletree front desk, she gave me her number. It's ZERO. I tried to call from here, some other woman answered. "You sound older!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

  Sam Harris

  Dna, One Day, Inheritance

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. "What?" he asked. "They're quite comfortable." He lifted on to look at it, and the ears wobbled in the air. "Of course they are," she said. Just when she thought Myrnin was getting his mental act together, he'd do something like that. Or maybe he was just messing with her. He liked to do that, and his dark eyes were fixed on her now, assessing just how weirded-out she was. Which, on the grade scale of zero to Myrnin, wasn't much.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Dark, Air

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.15, Penguin

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• The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it.

  Tina Fey

  Golf, Kitchen, Clubs

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• Venture capital has peaked in terms of its appetite, in terms of how much money it wants to put in. So now private equity funds are piling in. Primarily because interest rates are virtually zero so there's no fixed income play and they're not moving around.

  Kevin Kinsella

  Moving, Play, Income

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• You’ve got to be kidding me. I thought you were the most powerful of beings. Even the gods fear you. (Stryker) We all have predators. The entire universe exists in a system of checks and balances. I just met my zero balance. (War) Are you honestly telling me that the most powerful creature on this planet is a pathetic Cajun guttersnipe who offed himself because one of my men killed his mommy? (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Powerful, War, Men

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• In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Fall, People

  "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• A knife!" I yelled, still brandishing my pillow. "Jim, I command you to get me a gelding knife. If this guy wants to be a stallion—" He dissolved in a flurry of white smoke even before I could finish the sentence. Ha! Victorious again!" Yeah," Jim drawled while I remade the bed and fluffed up my pillows. "Aisling, two; sexy, naked men who just want to give her the pleasure of a lifetime with no commitment, zero.

  Katie MacAlister

  Sexy, Commitment, Knives

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• The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.

  Ramin Bahrani

  Running, School, Home

  "99 Homes director Ramin Bahrani on his dream debate between Trump and the Pope". Interview with Charles Bramesco, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2015.

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• The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Numbers, Tennis, Anorexia

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.183, Scholastic UK

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• Marco Rubio, as an example, he's got no money, zero.I think that's fine, that's OK, maybe it's good politically to say you owe money because you overborrowed on your credit cards. He's got nothing. I mean, he's got nothing.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Thinking, Example

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Cities, Numbers

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• Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an older-than-dirt-badass vampire to indulge in. The only thing that would surprise me more would be if you pulled out a rubber ducky. -Kira to Mencheres

  Jeaniene Frost

  Badass, Indulge In, Vampire

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• I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

  Mira Grant

  Suicidal, Gun, Motorcycle

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• He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility, your je ne sais quoi, and all he talks about is this magical place called 'Canada'.

  Anne Ursu

  Bravery, Doe, Canada

  Anne Ursu (2009). “The Immortal Fire”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

  Barack Obama

  Important, Privacy, Inconvenience

  Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

  James Joyce

  Space, Dawn, Degrees

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.759, Delphi Classics

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• One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.

  Michio Kaku

  Cutting, Thinking, Games

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Wise leaders know that if an individual doesn't count, the institution doesn't count for much either. Put mathematically, if the individual is a zero, together a lot of zeros add up to a whole lot of nothing.

  Diane Dreher

  Leadership, Wise, Together

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• There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Empathy, Brain

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• At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Infinity, Values

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• A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Hate, Fall

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