Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even up until yesterday, we thought that the numbers would change.

The revenue numbers are pretty disappointing. On the other hand, Lucent is in a lot better shape than it was two years ago, and if you're thinking about 2007, things look pretty decent.

These numbers are like trying to predict an earthquake.

It's a really insignificant number in terms of the percentage of tax refunds filed.

I never ever look at it as a number because it's not. It's a name. It's a face. It's a future.

In general, it reflected a lot of the recommendations the state has had for a number of years.

Each number is choreographed by a student, who picks out the costumes, too. Sometimes, they even make them.

Everybody's getting more touches. Their numbers have been down during the season but it's not because they can't do it.

There may be some surprise to the near-term dilution in earnings. The numbers are encouraging, but when you are talking about 2008, it is tough to get too excited.

This makes them a solid number three player,

Lindy Ruff

This is the most talented team that I've coached. You can see it in the special teams, you can see it in the number of points.

This is the kind of opportunity I've been working for my whole life. I thought I could have played better (against TCU), but I think I did all right as a whole. You need a number of reps to really get into a rhythm. This will be my first time to get significant playing time.

There's a risk you get a terrible number and there's no liquidity in the market,

John Updike

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

I like to see this number in the 70 percent range.

In the second 10 second trial, our numbers were really weird. It was obvious we did something wrong.

If you send that number on your transcript to another school, it wouldn't make sense.

In 1930, there were about 150,000 one-room public schoolhouses in the United States. By 1997 that number had dwindled to just 450.

Carly Fiorina

You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.

Candice S. Miller

Without taking enforcement actions against all criminal aliens, programs such as Secure Communities may result in large numbers of identified criminal aliens being released back into the society which, of course, is an unacceptable outcome for our communities.

Buzz Aldrin

We're number one on the runway.

Bryan Cranston

There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.

Jason Gann

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

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.

Hanna Rosin

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

Fred Hoyle

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.

Frank Herbert

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.

Guru Nanak

The Formless Supreme Being abides in the Realm of Eternity. Over His creation He casts His glance of grace. In that Realm are contained all the continents and the universes, Exceeding in number all count. Of creation worlds upon worlds abide therein; All obedient to His will; He watches over them in bliss, And has each constantly in mind.

Graham Nash

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.