Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spike Jonze

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

Spike Lee

I consider Madonna a friend, and she sure knows how to work the publicity machine. Of course, I don't have breasts. If I did have, I'd be in the number one spot over Madonna.

Linus Torvalds

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

Lindsay Davenport

I donate lots to charity. I don't necessarily tell everybody the number or what I do.

Linda Ronstadt

Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Actually, Congress just did pass a tax plan like Donald Trump`s.They passed a tax plan which some Democrats voted for, significant number of Democrats which gave huge tax breaks to wealthy people and corporations.

Karl Popper

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

Karen Carpenter

Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

Robert Bresson

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

Tom Hodgkinson

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

Tom Glazer

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

Tim Ferriss

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.

Tim Ferriss

Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the freedom multiplier.

Ronald Reagan

We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

Roman Jakobson

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

Sam Neill

You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

Sacha Baron Cohen

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

Simon Sinek

A group of followers has strength because of its numbers. A following has power because of its beliefs.

Simon Sinek

Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

Simon Sinek

The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.

Simon Sinek

Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.

Simon Cowell

If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.

Rick Riordan

Now, you'll have to answer my questions." "Oh, very well," Set said. "I like Brazil for the World Cup. I'd advise investing in platinum and small-cap funds. And your lucky numbers this week are 2, 13--" "Not those questions!" Menshikov snapped.

Richard Brautigan

"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."

Renata Adler

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

Richard Branson

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Richie Benaud

It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.

Tim Allen

Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!

Seth

I'm not sure there's any number of Facebook likes that can replace a hug.

Li Ka-shing

Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

Marcia Wallace

I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.