Fractional Odds

Famous quotes containing the words fractional and/or odds:

    Hummingbird
    stay for a fractional sharp
    sweetness, and’s gone, can’t take
    more than that.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds with other nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.
    Edna O’Brien (b. c. 1932)