And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky.
There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.
I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
We live but a fraction of our lives.
[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.
Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
I asked my wife, 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rate me as a lover?' She said, 'You know I'm no good at fractions.'
Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.
I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books, including 'Fraction Fun,' 'Calculator Riddles,' and 'Shape Up!' 'Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons.'
The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
I'm brilliant at working out numbers up to 180 but if you ask me to split a restaurant bill I'm rubbish.
Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.
Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
