Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Brown Findlay

Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

H. G. Wells

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

Jay Leno

President Obama announced this week that he is going to start sending out his own messages personally on Twitter. And today Anthony Weiner said, “It’s a trap, don’t do it!” But President Obama’s tweets are a little different than Anthony Weiner’s. When Obama sends out pictures of something obscene, it’s the unemployment numbers.

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.

Karl Marx

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Josh Bernstein

I would rather be loved by millions and hated by the same number rather than moderately liked by everyone.

Kristin Hannah

She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.

Murray Walker

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

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.

Georg Cantor

Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

Gene Hackman

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Gary Hamel

The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.

Jenni Rivera

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

Jean Guitton

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Jean-Francois Cope

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

Jean Dubuffet

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

Gloria Gaynor

I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.

Gloria Estefan

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

Hunter S. Thompson

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

He played better than what his numbers show.

Ian McDiarmid

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

I do think this project is just too big. We all know the rumor -- they need the size to make the numbers work.

He's one of the better players on our team. I think that he's established he's one of the better receivers in the game. His numbers reflect that.

Enrico Fermi

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.