Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Grant

To me the gold price takes the form of a very uncomplicated formula, and all you have to do is divide one by 'n.' And 'n', I'm glad you ask, 'n' is the world's trust in the institution of paper money and in the capacity of people like Ben Bernanke to manage it. So the smaller 'n', the bigger the price. One divided by a receding number is the definition of a bull market.

Socrates

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

The number of those 19 to 25 with private insurance increased from 51 to 55.8 percent, and the percentage of uninsured fell from 33.9 percent in 2010 to 28.8 percent during the first half of 2011.

Michael Shermer

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

Michael Shermer

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Nora Roberts

Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.

All I can do is go out there when my number is called and do my best.

Eric Lefkofsky

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

Eric Hoffer

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Emmanuelle Seigner

Age is a number on a piece of paper.

Emmeline Pankhurst

It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

James Chanos

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.

Jake Halpern

Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.

Jakaya Kikwete

Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done, what the AU is simply saying is that what is critical, what is the priority, is peace. That is priority number one now.

Henry Rollins

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

Henry Rollins

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

Henry Rollins

Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.

Henry Rollins

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

Norman Foster

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ...

Norman Jewison

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

Mitch Albom

What's wrong with being number 2?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.

Neil Gaiman

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

Neil Gaiman

The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time.

I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.

John Muir

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

John Wilbanks

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

John von Neumann

I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.

John von Neumann

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number– there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

John Philip Sousa

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.

Luis Fortuno

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.