Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kerry King

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

Kenneth Koch

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Ken Blanchard

Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

Jim Jones

As you can see, we've been there quite a bit. The numbers speak for themselves.

As much as anything, we often have referred to 'Selection Sunday,' and that has become very much a tradition. However, I think that you can go back in our history, and we have done any number of things to take some risks.

Ralph Nader

Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.

Ralph Adams Cram

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

Sheena Iyengar

When people are given a moderate number of options (4 to 6) rather than a large number (20 to 30), they are more likely to make a choice, are more confident in their decisions, and are happier with what they choose.

Shane Filan

It's amazing how lucky Westlife were and what we achieved. It's very rare to have seven number ones in a row. Ridiculous in fact.

Serge Lang

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

Sidney Poitier

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

Scott Caan

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

Tobias Smollett

Number three is always fortunate.

Sloane Crosley

I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

Socrates

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

The number of those 19 to 25 with private insurance increased from 51 to 55.8 percent, and the percentage of uninsured fell from 33.9 percent in 2010 to 28.8 percent during the first half of 2011.

Michael Shermer

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

Michael Shermer

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Norman Foster

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ...

Norman Jewison

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

Mitch Albom

What's wrong with being number 2?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.

Neil Gaiman

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

Neil Gaiman

The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time.

I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.

John Muir

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

John Wilbanks

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

John von Neumann

I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.

John von Neumann

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number– there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Nora Roberts

Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.

Nikola Tesla

Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

Nas

I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me.