Palindrome Quotes

Here's a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, "Obsession." Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob

I have a fear of palindromes. Maybe because the only person to ever beat the hell out of me was a man named Bob.

We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.

Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

I’m not interested in driving a racecar, but I would love to cruise around in a palindrome.

It was too full of love. Nothing could shift it. Nothing could turn it from itself. When all the world was palimpsest, it was a perfect palindrome. Inviolate.

I'm thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome

A palindrome,” I said the first time she told me. She looked at me, perplexed, and that’s when I knew I could never love her. What a waste of a palindrome she was, that Hannah. -Owen Gentry

I prefer pi.

The neatest palindrome in English is undoubtedly: “A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.

Ban Nab. It’s a palindrome.’ He said nothing, so I added: ‘It reads the same forwards and backwards.’ ‘Do geese see God?’ Hawthorne asked.

An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reversed. A palindrome: gut-tug.

Palindrome—a word, number, phrase, or sequence of symbols or elements whose meaning can be interpreted the same way both forward and in reverse. We begin as we end; we end as we begin. That is life. It's the middle we must hold on to.

When the spirit passed through him he groaned, throwing body and soul into his weekly purge. The "Amen enema", as I call it. My palindrome for the Reverend.

For years, I thought that if I had to be a palindrome, make me kuulilennuteetunneliluuk.

No one seemed to realize calculating sums requires only the most basic machinery and good concentration. Poetry is far more difficult. And palindromes, with their perfect, satisfying taste: Draw a level award! Yet it is always the thin gray grocery sums that make an impression.

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Mojica was driving home from his lab one evening when he came up with the name CRISPR, for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.

Like a palindrome, like the way a perfect day should be.

When all the world was palimpsest, it was a perfect palindrome.

S-A-T-O-R A-R-E-P-O T-E-N-E-T O-P-E-R-A R-O-T-A-S The palindrome means something like “The farmer Arepo works with his plow,” with rotas, literally “wheels,” referring to the back-and-forth motion that plows make as they till. This “magic square” has delighted enigmatologists for centuries ... The magic square also reportedly kept away the devil, who traditionally (so said the church) got confused when he read palindromes.

Before him my life was a palindrome—the same forward and backward, like "A man, a plan, a canal. Panama," or "Madam, I'm Adam." But Olly's like a random letter, the big bold X thrown in the middle of the word or phrase that ruins the sequence.

Martin had a period of relishing the Boston thug-writer George V. Higgins, author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Higgins’s characters had an infectious way of saying ‘inna’ and ‘onna,’ so Martin would say, for example, ‘I think this lunch should be onna Hitch’ or ‘I heard he wasn’t that useful inna sack.’ Simple pleasures you may say, but linguistic sinew is acquired in this fashion and he would not dump a trope until he had chewed all the flesh and pulp of it and was left only with pith and pips. Thus there arrived a day when Park Lane played host to a fancy new American hotel with the no less fancy name of ‘The Inn on The Park’ and he suggested a high-priced cocktail there for no better reason than that he could instruct the cab driver to ‘park inna Inn onna Park.’ This near-palindrome (as I now think of it) gave us much innocent pleasure.

The best description of this book is found within the title. The full title of this book is: "This is the story my great-grandfather told my father, who then told my grandfather, who then told me about how The Mythical Mr. Boo, Charles Manseur Fizzlebush Grissham III, better known as Mr. Fizzlebush, and Orafoura are all in fact me and Dora J. Arod, who sometimes shares my pen, paper, thoughts, mind, body, and soul, because Dora J. Arod is my pseudonym, as he/it incorporates both my first and middle name, and is also a palindrome that can be read forwards or backwards no matter if you are an upright man in the eyes of God or you are upside down in a tank of water wearing purple goggles and grape jelly discussing how best to spread your time between your work, your wife, and the toasted bread being eaten by the man you are talking to who goes by the name of Dendrite McDowell, who is only wearing a towel on his head and has an hourglass obscuring his “time machine”--or the thing that he says can keep him young forever by producing young versions of himself the way I avert disaster in that I ramble and bumble like a bee until I pollinate my way through flowery situations that might otherwise have ended up being more than less than, but not equal to two short parallel lines stacked on top of each other that mathematicians use to balance equations like a tightrope walker running on a wire stretched between two white stretched limos parked on a long cloud that looks like Salt Lake City minus the sodium and Mormons, but with a dash of pepper and Protestants, who may or may not be spiritual descendents of Mr. Maynot, who didn’t come over to America in the Mayflower, but only because he was “Too lazy to get off the sofa,” and therefore impacted this continent centuries before the first television was ever thrown out of a speeding vehicle at a man who looked exactly like my great-grandfather, who happens to look exactly like the clone science has yet to allow me to create

One of Lindon's amusing word-unit palindromes reads: "Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, finds boy eyeing bikini on bathing girl." Other palindromes are symmetric with respect to back-to-front reading letter by letter-"Able was I ere I saw Elba" (attributed jokingly to Napoleon), or the title of a famous NOVA program: "A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama.

Surprisingly, palindromes appear not just in witty word games but also in the structure of the male-defining Y chromosome. The Y's full genome sequencing was completed only in 2003. This was the crowning achievement of a heroic effort, and it revealed that the powers of preservation of this sex chromosome have been grossly underestimated. Other human chromosome pairs fight damaging mutations by swapping genes. Because the Y lacks a partner, genome biologists had previously estimated that its cargo was about to dwindle away in perhaps as little as five million years. To their amazement, however, the researchers on the sequencing team discovered that the chromosome fights withering with palindromes. About six million of its fifty million DNA letters form palindromic sequences-sequences that read the same forward and backward on the two strands of the double helix. These copies not only provide backups in case of bad mutations, but also allow the chromosome, to some extent, to have sex with itself-arms can swap position and genes are shuffled. As team leader David Page of MIT has put it, "The Y chromosome is a hall of mirrors.

One night last year when my father and I were eating supper at 6.17 p.m., I said to him, "Did you have a favourite?" "A favourite what?" asked my father. "A favourite foster mother." "Yes, I did," said my father. "Her name was Hannah Pederson." "That is very interesting," I told him, recalling Mrs Leibler's conversational tips, "because 'Hannah' is a kind of word called a palindrome. That means you can spell it the same way whether you start at the beginning or the end. My name is not a palindrome because if you spell it backwards it's E-S-O-R. But it does have a homonym." My father said, "Don't get started on homonyms, Rose." So I said, "Did you have any favourite foster brothers or sisters?" "Yes," said my father after a moment. "How interesting," I replied. "Did any of their names have homonyms?

An interesting question is whether symmetry with respect to translation, and indeed reflection and rotation too, is limited to the visual arts, or may be exhibited by other artistic forms, such as pieces of music. Evidently, if we refer to the sounds, rather than to the layout of the written musical score, we would have to define symmetry operations in terms other than purely geometrical, just as we did in the case of the palindromes. Once we do that, however, the answer to the question, Can we find translation-symmetric music? is a resounding yes. As Russian crystal physicist G. V. Wulff wrote in 1908: "The spirit of music is rhythm. It consists of the regular, periodic repetition of parts of the musical composition...the regular repetition of identical parts in the whole constitutes the essence of symmetry." Indeed, the recurring themes that are so common in musical composition are the temporal equivalents of Morris's designs and symmetry under translation. Even more generally, compositions are often based on a fundamental motif introduced at the beginning and then undergoing various metamorphoses.

I am part of a lost generation and I refuse to believe that I can change the world I realize this may be a shock but “Happiness comes from within” is a lie, and “Money will make me happy” So in 30 years I will tell my children they are not the most important thing in my life My employer will know that I have my priorities straight because work is more important than family I tell you this Once upon a time Families stayed together but this will not be true in my era This is a quick fix society Experts tell me 30 years from now, I will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of my divorce I do not concede that I will live in a country of my own making In the future Environmental destruction will be the norm No longer can it be said that My peers and I care about this earth It will be evident that My generation is apathetic and lethargic It is foolish to presume that There is hope And all of this will come true unless we choose to reverse it. There is hope It is foolish to presume that My generation is apathetic and lethargic It will be evident that My peers and I care about this earth No longer can it be said that Environmental destruction will be the norm In the future I will live in a country of my own making I do not concede that 30 years from now, I will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of my divorce Experts tell me This is a quick fix society But this will not be true in my era Families stayed together Once upon a time I tell you this Family Is more important than Work I have my priorities straight because My employer will know that They are not the most important thing in my life So in 30 years I will tell my children "Money will make me happy" Is a lie, and "Happiness comes from within" I realize this may be a shock, but I can change the world And I refuse to believe that I am part of a lost generation

Sélème : Engage le jeu que je le gagne ! Caracole : L'âme sûre ruse mal ! Sélème : L'âme sœur, elle, rue, ose mal... Erg immigré ! Erg en nègre ! Vos Sov ! Le traceur à la rue : cartel ! Caracole : En nos repères, n'insère personne ! Sélème : Le sert-on ici, notre sel ? Caracole : Tâte l'état ! C'est sec. Sélème : Léger regel ? Caracole : Saper ses repas... Sélème : Semi-auteur, ô male ! La morue tu aimes. Caracole : Euh... Hue ! Sélème : Eh, ça va la vache ? Caracole : Rat ! Avatar ! Sélème : C'est sec... Ta bête te bat ! Caracole : Et si l'arôme des bottes révèle madame, le verset t'obsède, moraliste ! Sélème : L'arôme moral ? Ému, ce destin rêve, il part natter ce secret tantra plié, vernissé d'écume. Caracole : Et tu te démêles, Sélème de lutte ? Sélème : Ici ? Non. Tu l'as, ressac, avalé ? Crac ! Car cela va casser... Salut ! Caracole : Sniff ! À l'affin S ! Sélème : Élu, aimé, jeté, ô poète ! Je miaule ! Caracole : Ah Élu, ça ! Je trace l'écart, éjacule, ha ! Sélème : Rupture de lien : un arc élève le reste et se relève à l'écran, une île de rut pur. Caracole : Mon nom... Sélème : Hola Caracole, va à vélo caracal, oh ! Caracole : Mon nom... Mon nom... Sélème : Ressasser, "Carac", ressasser ! Oh, cela te perd répéta l'écho !

I say eek to Zeke Ekez, the imaginary palindrome politician of my dreams. He looks like me, talks like me, and thinks like me, but I won’t vote for him, because I always vote for myself.

Not far removed from the palindrome is the anagram, in which the letters of a word or name are jumbled to make a new, and ideally telling, phrase. Thus “Ronald Wilson Reagan” becomes “Insane Anglo Warlord”; “Spiro Agnew” becomes -Grow a Penis.

Bathtub” is a palindrome with a speech impediment.

My name is Aviva. It’s not male, and it’s not female, but it is a palindrome—which makes it hermaphroditic, as it occupies both ends of the spectrum equally.

– Madame, bon c’est vrai que « ki » ne s’écrit pas comme « qui », mais avouez quand même que quand on l’écrit comme ça, ça redonne un « petit coup de jeune » à la lettre K !

- MADAME, JE PEUX VOUS RENDRE MA COPIE ? – DEUX SECONDES, JE NE SUIS PAS SHIVA. – VAS-Y, ELLE M’A DIT « VA CHIER » LA PROF LÀ OU QUOI ?

– Je vous ai déjà dit de ne pas vous battre. Enfin, pas avec les poings. Je ne me tue pas à vous apprendre l’argumentation pour rien, quand même. – Mais vous faites quoi, vous, quand on vous agresse ? – Eh bien justement : j’utilise les mots, pas les poings ! – Genre, le mec, il est là, il vous sort son coutal, et vous hop-hop-hop, vous dégainez le Scrabble, quoi !!

– Et donc qui étaient les Muses ? – Des femmes qui aspiraient le poète. – Euh… Vous voulez dire « inspiraient », non ? – Les deux, non ? – …

And she always, always made it a point to tell me that her name, when spelled backward, was still Hannah. “A palindrome,” I said the first time she told me. She looked at me, perplexed, and that’s when I knew I could never love her. What a waste of a palindrome she was, that Hannah.

A guy named Otto Sayas—I would give anything to have a name that was a palindrome—knocks

April 2015, China announced its use of a new technology known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspersed Palindromic Repeats), used for the purpose of simplified gene editing. This new genetic modification technology is fast, simple to use, and inexpensive. A recent Chinese biotech start-up named Amino has brought this technology to everyone in a kit that retails for just under seven hundred dollars. Yes, for less than a good smartphone,

The phobia of palindromes is called aibohphobia, which is itself a palindrome.

Ahhh! Privacy! Did the self-inscriber intend to write for future readership? Some diarists I include in my book appear to – one even writing an entry to the future. In "The Power of Diaries: Interview with Jane Perry, Author of White Snake Diary" from Paula Whitacre Blog, February 20, 2020: a palindrome!

As you know, this stands for Clustered Regularly Interspersed Palindromic Repeats.  Trust me, you just need the acronym for the test.”  The students laughed.

clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats—

I’d also toyed with calling him Caverat before that ‒ which I’ll explain in a minute. Anyway, Twitch was the nickname of the kid that took Zero's place and who I named Z after when he ran away in Holes ‒ which is still my favorite book ever. Now that I think about it, it's probably my favorite movie too. Not only that but my other cat’s name was X-Ray. He was mostly black but had several white markings that looked sorta like fuzzy bones ‒ with one in particular running down his left hind leg about where his tibia would show up in an actual x-ray. So I probably would've called him X-Ray no matter what but it sure didn't hurt that it's the name of the leader of the kids at Camp Green Lake. I even considered Stanley before that ‒ who's the book’s main character and of course, the star of its’ movie. Before that that, I’d actually debated calling him Bob ‒ if you can believe it. But cats shouldn't have regular old people names as far as I'm concerned ‒ with maybe just a few exceptions. I decided that neither Bob ‒ which only came up in the first place because I like palindromes ‒ nor Stanley were one of 'em. Even besides the bone-like birthmarks making X-Ray the obvious choice. To be honest, it was Nat's suggestion anyway. Back to Stanley though, even though his nickname at Camp Green Lake was Caveman, I decided against Cave-cat right away. But it did seem to fit Twitch since he was hiding under the china cabinet and all. Another name I’d thought about before she brought up X-Ray was Yelnats ‒ which is Stanley's last name and the emordnilap of his first ‒ and plenty un-regular-old-people-like enough but as I pointed out at the time, we already had a Nat in the house who yells. That made her laugh but it wasn't exactly true plus on top of it, I ended up having to admit that her idea was better all along. By the way, if you didn’t know it, an emordnilap is the reverse of a word or phrase that isn't a nonsense string but also isn’t a palindrome ‒ which spells the same thing forwards and backwards. Other palindromes besides ‘Bob’ are 'refer'; ‘bird rib’; 'a nut for a jar of tuna’; ‘borrow or rob?’; ‘racecar’; ‘Yo banana boy!’; 'deified'; ‘Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog’ ‒ or like I already half mentioned… Stanley Yelnats. Emordnilaps make a new one instead ‒ such as ‘live’ and ‘evil’; ‘lived’ and ‘devil’; ‘dog’ and ‘god’; ‘stressed’ and ‘desserts’; ‘stops’ and ‘spots’; or ‘keep reward’ and ‘drawer peek’. As you’ve probably figured out already, ‘emordnilap’ is the emordnilap of ‘palindrome’ so therefore ‘palindrome’ is not a palindrome.

Exercise 7.10: The sort.Interface type can be adapted to other uses. Write a function IsPalindrome(s sort.Interface) bool that reports whether the sequence s is a palindrome, in other words, reversing the sequence would not change it. Assume that the elements at indices i and j are equal if !s.Less(i, j) && !s.Less(j, i).

Another example is the definition of a palindrome, which we can define as follows: A word is a palindrome if it has less than two letters (the simple case) or if its first and last letter are the same and the letters in the middle form a palindrome (the recursive step). The simplest way to write a Logo program for recognizing palindromes would be to use this recursive definition.

As powerful as they are, finite-state machines are not capable of recognizing all types of patterns in a sequence. For instance, it is impossible to build a finite-state machine that will unlock a lock whenever you enter any palindrome—a sequence that is the same forward and backward, like 3–2–1–1–2–3. This is because palindromes can be of any length, and to recognize the second half of a palindrome you need to remember every character in the first half. Since there are infinitely many possible first halves, this would require a machine with an infinite number of states.

[Nous prendrons toujours du plaisir à feuilleter des livres illustrés, car les images complètent ce que les phrases ne savent dire et parce qu'ils nous séduisent avec leurs dessins (vois-tu les excentricités que te permettent les palindromes?)] Întotdeauna ne va plăcea să răsfoim cărți ilustrate, deoarece imaginile completează ceea ce frazele nu știu să spună. Și pentru că ele ne seduc cu desenele (vezi ce nebunii poți face cu palindromurile?).

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my soul is sore I leave my mountain home walk the long roads to the sea no-one remembers me except the dead no-one remembers the dead… no-one remembers the dead except the dead no-one remembers me walk the long roads to the sea I leave my mountain home my soul is sore

Palindromes, one-letter shift ciphers, even a Greek decryption device called the scytale—all of these were used to hide the true nature of God’s sacred being.

always thought it suggested, on some palindromic level, that it’s the steps themselves that make a path, instead of the other way round. We are creating even as we believe we are following.

palindrome: La ruta nos aportó otro paso natural.

Malachi Constant is one of the richest men on Earth, but otherwise he is a soulless, purposeless individual. Thinking he might learn something to his benefit, he arranges to meet Winston Niles Rumfoord. Rumfoord, a New England aristocrat, while traveling in his private spaceship with his dog, Kazak, encountered a temporal anomaly called a “chrono-synclastic infundibulum.” This wrinkle in time allows him to travel both back to the past and forward to the future. Mostly, he and Kazak (a palindromic name) appear only as a wave spiral between the sun and Betelgeuse, materializing on Earth for a short while every fifty-nine days. He prophesizes that Constant will travel to Mars and father a child with Rumfoord’s disdainful wife, Beatrice—certainly not the news Constant wishes to hear, but that is indeed what happens, no matter what else intervenes. There is no avoiding destiny. Likewise, a parallel, humorous subplot is that Earth’s history has been manipulated by extraterrestrials from the planet Tralfamadore. They need a replacement part for a stranded spaceship, and all of human endeavor has been directed toward producing a rounded metal strip with two holes in it. The greatest of humankind’s architectural and engineering achievements—Stonehenge, the Great Wall of China, and the Kremlin—are really only messages in the Tralfamadorian mathematical language, informing the spaceship’s robot commander of how much longer he has to wait for the part. To underscore the universe’s ultimate determinism, Constant returns to Earth and makes a remark that he thinks is profound and original—“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all”—only to find that it has already been carved on a wooden scroll.59

Life is not a palindrome, don’t look backwards.

Goatley forms an acting group which performs avant-garde plays written in palindromes, but the group slowly peters out as the members start dying off of starvation.

bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! FW 3.15-17 n. Onomatopoeia for the sound of thunder. This is the first of 10 thunder words in Finnegans Wake, it and eight others having 100 letters and the 10th having 101 letters, making 1,001 letters that suggest the Arabian Nights or, in Wakese, “this scherzarade of one’s thousand and one nightinesses.” As a numerical palindrome, 1001 suggests the circular system of Vico and the Wake’s never-ending, never-beginning stylistic structure. In Vico’s system, the Divine Age is the first of three ages in which humanity hears the voice of God in thunder and, driven by fear (“the fright of light”) to hide in caves, pray “Loud, hear us!” “Who in the name of thunder’d ever belevin you were that bolt?” In keeping with this theme, the first thunder word is made up of many words similar to thunder in various languages: “kamminarro” (Japanese kaminari); “tuonn” (Italian tuono); “bronnto” (Greek Bronte); “thurnuk” (Gaelic tornach); “awnska” (Swedish aska); “tonner” (French tonnerre and Latin tonare); “tova” (Portuguese trovao); and “ton” (Old Rumanian tun).

Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.

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A palindrome. Damn, you’re right.

Engage le jeu que je le gagne.

Prinzessin Dylia musste allerdings tadeln, dass das Wort Palindrom selbst kein Palindrom war. Man hätte es doch Mordilidrom nennen können oder so, dann wäre es auch ein Palindrom, aber wenigstens ein richtiges. Aber diese Linguisten waren für ihre Einfallslosigkeit und Denkfaulheit genauso bekannt wie die meisten anderen Akademiker.

The word 'palindrome' spelled backwards is 'emordnilap,' which, when looked up in the dictionary reads: "See, this is why girls don't like you.

It’s a palindrome. Sator. Arepo. Tenet. Opera. Rotas.