“As I was passing by a vineyard on the Earth where some of mankind were taking their lunch, I heard them complaining and grumbling about these things they called 'ants'. Oh the woes and begoes of mankind,” smiled the good lord.

A key tool in Nevanlinna theory is the Nevanlinna characteristic, T(r,f), which measures the rate of growth of a meromorphic function.

Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine! Thou were lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry, Clementine.

… for the following day, the flowers were watered a quarter of an hour earlier than usual, and the bulfinch was allowed to perch on her finger and chirruped to, with a degree of innocent tenderness that would have undeviled Mephistophiles.