Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

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.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

Alphonsus Liguori

Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.

Anthony Marra

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

Cindy Margolis

I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up.

Chuck Martin

Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.

Andrew Jackson

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

Amitabh Bachchan

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life, and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that. So yes, the content of our television and our cinema is escapist in nature because we are there to provide entertainment.

Andy Rooney

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

Andy Rooney

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

Andy Stanley

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

Aesop

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

A. A. Milne

Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.

Alexander Pope

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Albert Speer

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

Douglas Massey

Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for a large number of people have to change over time.

Douglas Rushkoff

In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

Donna Karan

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

Donald Berwick

Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

Donald Byrd

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop,

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.

Ang Lee

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

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.