Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gaylord Nelson

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

Geddy Lee

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

Lord Acton

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

Edward Tufte

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

Edgerrin James

To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.

Eckhart Tolle

A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

Jose Carreras

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

Jorge Luis Borges

The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

Kevin Spacey

I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.

Kurt Fuller

I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.

Khalil Gibran

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Kerry Washington

There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?

Napoleon Hill

The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

Lloyd Bridges

We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.

Lynda Obst

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Ludwig Quidde

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

Lucy Stone

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

Louise Rennison

...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas and said, "Ooer." Meaning he'd got to number ten on the snogging scale. And then we both laughed like loons. Vati just looked at us like we were mad.

Lord Kelvin

In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

Lord Kelvin

If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it.

Malcolm Forbes

If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell

We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is a kind of hunger for some kind of new approach to getting the word out about something.

Mal Peet

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.

Maiara Walsh

My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Mahatma Gandhi

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

Frank Luntz

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

Norman McLaren

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.