Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is not a silver bullet. It would need to be done in combination with a number of therapies.

Quite a number of the signatures were not registered voters. You have a set of rules, and everyone should play by the same set of rules.

Bette Davis

Performance number 1,000, if I play it that long, will take place in a well-padded booby-hatch.

Janet Fitch

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

Janet Fitch

I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked...

Ernst Mayr

There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population but that are of great advantage to the population as a whole.

Ernesto Zedillo

What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

Ernest Borgnine

I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.

Mike Berry

There is strength in numbers and those numbers come in pounds.

Kirk Cameron

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

Kirsten Dunst

I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne - Pedro Almodovar wouldn't be too shabby. There are so many good directors, but those are some of my favorites.

Muqtada al Sadr

The US-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

Kendall Jenner

Modeling is my number one priority - one hundred percent.

Keira Knightley

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

Karen Walker

OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.

Keith Richards

I was Number 1 on the Who's Likely to Die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

Kevin O'Leary

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

Kerry King

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

Kenneth Koch

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Ken Blanchard

Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months. (81)

Kristi Yamaguchi

With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.

For that part of the country, it seems to be an unusual number of cases.

Imre Lakatos

Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.

Ichiro Suzuki

I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.

Gloria Steinem

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

Geraldo Rivera

The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.

Harry S Truman

I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

Ivan Pavlov

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.

H. G. Wells

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

H. L. Mencken

The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

Grace Paley

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.