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Quotes About Adding

There comes a point in every story where you have got a reservoir of knowledge, and you are then really just adding the substantial new facts to your understanding of it. That is the easiest situation, because you can call on that reservoir, but when you get a sudden story out of nowhere, like ebola, you don't have a reservoir of knowledge.
~ Richard Quest
There is the question of accumulation (...) just the simple adding up and adding on of life. And as the poet pointed out, there is a difference between addition and increase.
~ Julian Barnes
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.
~ Arnold Schoenberg
Adding new methods into classes that can be subclassed endangers source compatibility, but that's not the only point I want to make here. Adding new classes into existing packages might also cause problems.
~ Jaroslav Tulach
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
~ Nathanael West
I don't know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.
~ Simon Pegg
You're a thousand small wonders, Kylie, love, adding up to one grand miracle.
~ Dorien Kelly
Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.
~ Ryan Lilly
When I do the roles, when I'm in the room and auditioning, I'll ask the director if they're cool with me adding stuff, or just improvising while we're doing it. And I would say, like, 90 percent of the time, they say, 'Absolutely.'
~ Ben Schwartz
He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
~ John Milton
He's gone; and who knows how he may reportThy words by adding fuel to the flame?
~ John Milton
I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.
~ Charlie Haden
Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.
~ Nico Muhly
Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.
~ Richard Branson
Adding a player like Jack Hughes, a lot of teams in the NHL would dream of that talent.
~ P.K. Subban
Happiness is the ultimate purpose of life and supreme happiness comes from adding value in others life.
~ Debasish Mridha
My mom is quite religious, and she got the name Tituss from the Bible. It's one of the smallest books in the Bible. I don't know why she added an 's,' but she just did.
~ Tituss Burgess
Like every actor I too have some 'classics' in the closet, but I am not keen on adding to that collection.
~ Mahima Chaudhry
Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.
~ Gary Marcus
Nothing matters except for the harvest, the gathering in, the adding up, the bringing together, the whole story, the way it happens and happens and goes on happening. (from Collision)
~ Carol Shields
There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the circle his mind has drawn, his trust evaporates.
~ Geoffrey Wood
Adding the because makes these matters far more plausible, and far more likely.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Captain considered it, and shrugged. It seems right, he said. It is not precisely what El wanted; but enthroned as he is in his Palace, viewing the Land from a high seat, he does not see its complexity. This Land was made wrong. All of his efforts to make it right only spread the wrongness about it new ways. It is left to souls like me to decide what to do about it; and though I cannot see all the answers, I can guess that adding more wrongness will not help matters.
~ Neal Stephenson