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Quotes About Addition

The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Jonny Hayes is a good player. All the players trust the manager to bring in the players he believes should be added to the squad and his arrival is great for competition.
~ Scott Sinclair
If you said to me there's a top quality player who you can bring in and we are confident he will add to your squad, but you have to work with him a bit and he can be a bit fiery, then you feel if you are bringing him into a good group the group can take care of that.
~ Chris Hughton
Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.
~ Hanna Rosin
Louisa, never wonder!' Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Never wonder. By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder. Bring to me, says M'Choakumchild, yonder baby just able to walk, and I will engage that it will never wonder.
~ Charles Dickens
Until the absorption of the Polish territories, the Russian Empire had had practically no Jews, and it was uniquely ill-equipped to handle this new addition to its ethnic and religious mix.
~ Tom Reiss
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
~ Larry David
Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
The bottle, with its impotent message, was gone out to sea, and the problem that it had provoked was reduced to a simple sum in addition—one and one make two, by the rule of arithmetic; one by the rule of romance.
~ O. Henry
To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.
~ Charlotte Wood
For a human to win, it is not necessary for a horse to lose. You should not have to take things away from a horse or break him in fragments in order to train him; rather you should add to the horse. The goal should be making, not breaking.
~ Cherry Hill
The part libraries play in education is the part bubbles play in champagne. They may seem at first to be merely a shimmery addition, but they are the central feature of the entire enterprise and the reason, joyous and astonishing, to keep imbibing.
~ Lemony Snicket
Lawmakers need to be better stewards of policy and update it, not just keep adding on top of old laws.
~ Suzan DelBene
I really think that Steven Caple, Jr. is going to be a great addition to the 'Rocky' director pantheon.
~ Cheo Hodari Coker
In its pure crystalline form, MSG can be added to soups, stews, sauces, and stocks to add a rounded, savory flavor.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
This is my hobby: growing stores, adding stores. It's fun.
~ David Green
Modules are to rings as vector spaces are to fields. In other words, they are algebraic structures where the basic operations are addition and scalar multiplication, but now the scalars are allowed to come from a ring rather than a field.
~ Timothy Gowers
the kernel of a homomorphism is closed under addition, and also under multiplication by any element of the ring. These two properties define the notion of an ideal.
~ Timothy Gowers
A3 0 is an additive identity: 0 + a = a for any number a. That is all you need to know about 0. Not what it means – just a little rule that tells you what it does.
~ Timothy Gowers
addition to the landscape. No other shrub can bloom almost continuously from early summer until frost. And no
~ Oster, Maggie
Friendship can only be addition to, not a substitute for true love
~ P.C. Cast
All this natural misery," Dr. Goodsir said suddenly. "Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse? Can you answer me that, Mr. Hickey?
~ Dan Simmons
They divided the year into twelve lunar months, six having thirty days, six twenty-nine; and as this made but 354 days in all, they added a thirteenth month occasionally to harmonize the calendar with the seasons
~ Will Durant