Double Negatives Quotes

Quotes tagged as "double-negatives" Showing 1-4 of 4
Bob Marley
“There will never be no love at all.”
Bob Marley

James Dashner
“Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.”
James Dashner, The Death Cure

Robert McKee
“In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.”
Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Cressida Cowell
“I was thinking,' said Crusher dreamily [...] 'about LANGUAGE and how in English two negatives make a positive, but in spriteish, a double negative is still a negative. However there is NO language in which two positives make a negative ...'
'Yeah right, like THAT'S the problem,' said Xar, sarcastically. 'I hadn't thought of that!' said Crusher in gentle surprise [...]. 'You're correct, Car. "Yeah, right" IS a statement in English where two positives make a negative...”
Cressida Cowell, Twice Magic