Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.

Kinky Friedman

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.

Olivia Newton-John

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

Marg Helgenberger

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash

Marcus Terentius Varro

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Kevin Mitnick

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.

Kevin Mitnick

The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

Margaret Thatcher

I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

Margaret Cho

I'm really bad with trolls because I have a lot of really intense friends who are not necessarily doing things so legally. If I get trolled, [my friends will send me] an email with the person's Social Security number, phone number, pictures of his family, his business, his spouse. I see this person in his totality, and I feel so bad. I shouldn't have that power.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

Paul Ford

It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.

Patrick McGoohan

Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number.

Patrick Ness

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

Patrick Rothfuss

After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

Patrick Rothfuss

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

Lilly Singh

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.

Leopold Kronecker

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

Leopold Trepper

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.

Paul Claudel

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Oscar Wilde

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

For that part of the country, it seems to be an unusual number of cases.

Imre Lakatos

Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.

Ichiro Suzuki

I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.

Gloria Steinem

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

Geraldo Rivera

The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.

Harry S Truman

I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

Muqtada al Sadr

The US-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

Kendall Jenner

Modeling is my number one priority - one hundred percent.

Keira Knightley

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

Keith Richards

I was Number 1 on the Who's Likely to Die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

Kevin O'Leary

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.