Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Rennison

...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas and said, "Ooer." Meaning he'd got to number ten on the snogging scale. And then we both laughed like loons. Vati just looked at us like we were mad.

Lord Kelvin

In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

Lord Kelvin

If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it.

Malcolm Forbes

If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.

Malcolm Gladwell

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

Malcolm Gladwell

We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is a kind of hunger for some kind of new approach to getting the word out about something.

Mal Peet

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.

Maiara Walsh

My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Mahatma Gandhi

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

Frank Luntz

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

Maggie Stiefvater

Cole," I said, "Don't lose this number.

Maggie Stiefvater

A frightening menagerie, my emotions are Too many and varied to number Like creatures they crawl and they fly above Tearing my body asunder.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

Heinrich Himmler

I know there are some people in Germany who become sick when they see these black uniforms, we understand the reason for this, and do not expect we shall be loved by all that number of people; those who come to fear us in any way or at any time must have a bad conscience towards the Fuhrer and the nation. For these persons we have established an organisation called the Security Service.

Heston Blumenthal

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling

Helen Reddy

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

Henry Fielding

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Helena Bonham Carter

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

Heinz Pagels

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

Heinz Pagels

While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.

Kate Walsh

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

Katee Sackhoff

This business is hard. People and producers and studios and finance guys get caught up in saying, "Women don't sell movies," or "This person doesn't sell foreign," or "You have to attach guys first," or "People don't want to see women do this." I've heard those things so many times that I've actually heard myself say them, a number of times.

Judy Blume

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

Kate Millett

For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.

Laurel Clark

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

Macklemore

We become so numb to what we're saying.

Haruki Murakami

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

Haruki Murakami

I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.

Harbhajan Singh

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

Hans Rosling

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

Hanan Ashrawi

It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

Gustave Courbet

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.