Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leopold Kronecker

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

Leopold Trepper

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.

Paul Claudel

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Oscar Wilde

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Madonna Ciccone

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it.

Louis L'Amour

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

Lorrie Moore

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

Michael Schumacher

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.

Michael Schumacher

Ross Brawn knows that I prefer to have odd race numbers.

Michael Korda

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

Marilyn Manson

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

Marilyn Manson

I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

Michael Kinsley

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

Merton Miller

Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm.

Mason Cooley

Pity drowns in numbers.

Marvin Olasky

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

Martin Van Creveld

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Martina Hingis

I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant

Michael Moore

One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.

Michael Gove

I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.

Michael Gove

The promise to take back control of our borders. I will end free movement, introduce an Australian-style points-based system for immigration, and bring numbers down. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

Michio Kaku

... each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes its complex motions in space-time by splitting and recombining, a large number of highly sophisticated mathematical identities must be satisfied. These are precisely the mathematical identities discovered by Ramanujan.

Michael Jordan

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.

Michael Jordan

Number 45 doesn't explode like Number 23 used to.

Martha Plimpton

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

Ovid

Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

Matt Groening

I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work that they do is really fantastic. It's a blast just to sit around with them in the writers' room and listen to all the filthy jokes that will never get on the air.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Mary Wollstonecraft

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

Marya Hornbacher

I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it would be odd to say: I'm not feeling. Or, more to the point: I'm not, I have ceased to be. Where am I?

Marya Hornbacher

And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. Far off, voices try to bump up against me, but I repel them. My ears fill up with water and I focus on the humming in my head.

Mary Hunter Austin

Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water....