Fractions Quotations

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.

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

Because of the fast fractions and the sloppy condition of the track for the Wood, I don't think you can conclude the horse doesn't want to go the (Derby) distance.

It didn't seem like we were going too fast. He'd run fractions like that before and finished well for me.

Images split the truth in fractions.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Really, all living humans are closely related to each other. If you take different people's DNA and compare it to each other, there are only tiny fractions of difference.

He said no. The fractions in the Travers, they were walking. It was a race from the half-mile pole. If he ran in the King's Bishop, he'd have hooked up with Lost in the Fog and he'd gotten his butt run off for seven furlongs. It was sitting there waiting to happen. The one thing that beat us more than anything was time.

The fractions were a little soft and I thought Stevie was a little closer than I wanted him to be but it worked out. Alex had a lot of horse. He knows the horse and he rode him perfect.

The fractions were tough enough early on and I wasn't too worried. When I pulled (Classic Photo), he felt very strong and with each horse that we passed he just got stronger and braver. My horse isn't as big as Vivid Photo, but he's got a bigger gait.

These fractions are surprisingly high. We would have expected them to be exhausted by 2003.

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.

This positions us to be competitive on a global scale and brings investors the benefit of greater liquidity. I think it's very appropriate that we analyze the performance of the market in the pre and post decimalization period, with special attention being given to making certain that public investors are treated as well in decimals as they have been in fractions for the past 208 years.

It seems like they have a camera for every player. And they've got (the cameras) slowed down to fractions of inches." ()

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!

There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.

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...

If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

We live but a fraction of our lives.

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

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.

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

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.

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.'

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.