Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Kerr

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

James A. Garfield

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

James A. Baldwin

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

Jacqueline Susann

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Franz Liszt

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

Frank James

At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.

Frank Robinson

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

George Herbert

Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.

Chris Hedges

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

Chris Hardwick

I don't know why people don't want to talk about their numbers. I guess in a sense, there's a bit of performer nudity, a bit of ego nudity when you expose your numbers, I guess because someone's are higher or someone's are lower. I've never really talked about the numbers with anyone, so maybe I'm not supposed to.

Chris Hardwick

You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.

Christopher Cross

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

Christian Bale

There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

Chris Van Hollen

In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.

Chris Patten

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

Chris Kyle

No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.

George Thorogood

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

George Orwell

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

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.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

Ellen DeGeneres

Beauty is not between a size 0 and a size 8. It's not a number at all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

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 don't think the Arbitron numbers have peaked yet.

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.

Howard Zinn

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.

Hannah Arendt

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

Guy Finley

One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.

Gotye

Have your friends collect your records and then change your number...

Gottfried Leibniz

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

James Bovard

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.