Positive Real Number

Famous quotes containing the words positive, real and/or number:

    “The oaks, how subtle and marine!
    Bearded, and all the layered light
    Above them swims; and thus the scene,
    Recessed, awaits the positive night.”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

    “Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.”
    —Donn Pierce, U.S. screenwriter, Frank R. Pierson, and Stuart Rosenberg. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman)

    “A child’s self-image is more like a scrapbook than a single snapshot. As the child matures, the number and variety of images in that scrapbook may be far more important than any individual picture pasted inside it.”
    —Lawrence Kutner (20th century)