Famous Quotes & Sayings

Courtney Love

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

Colin Powell

Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

Daniel Kahneman

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

Conor Oberst

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

Daniel Day-Lewis

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

Dan Castellaneta

Operator! Give me the number for 911!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

Doris Lessing

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Donna Shalala

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

Donna Tartt

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

Donald Knuth

How can you own [...] numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

Donald Knuth

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

Cynthia Kenyon

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

E. B. White

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.

Douglas Coupland

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Ann Richards

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Aneurin Bevan

Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.

Anant Agarwal

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

Anne Hathaway

I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

Anaxagoras

And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.

Anaxagoras

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

Chuck Palahniuk

What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

Christopher Parker

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.

Christopher Walken

I've made quite a number of movies that I've never even seen and I've made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw... Sometimes they end up on television.

Christopher Walken

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

Andrew Bird

I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.

Anna Louise Strong

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

Anne Sexton

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

Anita Pallenberg

They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.

Andrew Davies

I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

Ambrose Bierce

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

Alicia Silverstone

I've gained so much confidence as a woman from figuring out that I don't want to be destructive. I don't want to stomp through the world and be number one. I just want to tread really lightly and not destroy anything. Hopefully, I can try to mend some things. That's my goal.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.