Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

Frank Zappa

Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.

Jeanette Winterson

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.

Jesmyn Ward

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

Jerzy Kosinski

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Christopher Lee

Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.

Gareth Gates

Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.

Gareth Bale

I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

George C. Williams

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

George Carey

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

Neale Donald Walsch

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Neale Donald Walsch

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

Morley Safer

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

Morey Amsterdam

Even the police have an unlisted number.

Jack Welch

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers

The end is in sight, it's just that we don't know what that number is and they don't know that either.

Drew Henson

You want to play, but I kind of understand with the way the situation was unfolding with the first team going longer, obviously there wasn't that many series for the rest of us, ... ... I'll be ready Thursday if my number is called.

You've got a number of different property owners

Epicurus

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

Epicurus

Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.

Ellsworth Huntington

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

Edward Tufte

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

Edgerrin James

To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.

Eckhart Tolle

A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.

Napoleon Hill

The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

Norman McLaren

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

Norman Maclean

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

Norman Ralph Augustine

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Orson Pratt

If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

Oliver Sacks

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.