Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graydon Carter

Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

Gordon Moore

The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

John Dryden

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

John Marshall

Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.

John Maynard Keynes

To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.

John Maynard Keynes

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

John Major

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

John Landgraf

We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.

Joe Walsh

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

John C. Reilly

There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.

Francois Truffaut

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

Gaylord Nelson

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

Geddy Lee

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

Lord Acton

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

Lloyd Bridges

We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.

John Kenneth Galbraith

However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from

Paul Davies

It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.

Patrick Dixon

The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.

Paracelsus

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

P. C. Cast

Oh. Yeah. That does make sense.” Shaylin hesitated. “But I don’t know which dorm room is hers.” “Third floor, number thirty-six. When they shared a brain, they used to say it stood for their chest size. I said it was their combined IQ.” “Of course you did,” Shaylin said. “See, you do understand me!” Aphrodite said with fake enthusiasm.

Paul Lynde

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

Pauline Marois

Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers.

Paul Valery

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

Mel Gibson

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

Meher Baba

In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am neither a Mahatma nor a Mahapurush, neither a Sadhu nor a Saint, neither a Yogi nor a Wali. I am the ancient One. The Highest of the High!

Mel Brooks

We rest our case on the production numbers.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

Mary Cheney

Early numbers are always wrong.

Mary Catherine Bateson

A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.

Piet Mondrian

Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.