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). "Ciencia y valores humanos", HarperCollins Publishers

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• I have an abacus at home.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inicio

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

  Jan Koum

  Ordenador

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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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• Oscuras líneas de surcos surcan la nieve, puntuadas por las cuentas de ábaco naranja de las calabazas: ahora los cuervos son los dueños del campo.

  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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• Naturalmente Shirley había sabido, mientras deslizaban palabras y frases hechas de un lado a otro entre ellos como cuentas en un ábaco, que Howard debía estar tan rebosante de éxtasis como ella; pero expresar estos sentimientos en voz alta, cuando la noticia de la muerte aún estaba fresca en el aire, habría sido equivalente a bailar desnudos y gritar obscenidades, y Howard y Shirley estaban revestidos, siempre, de una capa invisible de decoro que nunca dejaban de lado.

  J. K. Rowling

  Air, Dancing, Feelings

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