Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

Millicent Fawcett

The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

Drew Henson

You want to play, but I kind of understand with the way the situation was unfolding with the first team going longer, obviously there wasn't that many series for the rest of us, ... ... I'll be ready Thursday if my number is called.

You've got a number of different property owners

Their numbers are an estimate, all our numbers are an estimate, but they're perfectly sensible,

John Connolly

Their numbers 9, 10 and 15 demonstrated how to play in the conditions.

These are good, solid numbers by any measure. The underlying fundamentals are strong, but the whole sector is trading on emotion, not fundamentals.

These are a small number of events, but they're enough to raise concern.

All I can do is go out there when my number is called and do my best.

Eric Lefkofsky

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

Mortimer Adler

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Peter Drucker

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

Peter Drucker

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

Maria Sharapova

My next goal is to be number one in the world.

Max Planck

Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.

Max Baucus

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

Maurice Strong

I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.

Maurice Strong

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

Matthew Lillard

The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.

John Pople

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.

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?

John Oliver

You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'

John Dean

Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the poll numbers, people knew Nixon was deeply involved in Watergate and stayed with him for a long time. It's a natural tendency.

John Dewey

Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single continuous interaction of a great diversity (literally countless in number) of energies.

John Calvin

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

John Berendt

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

John Avery

Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.

John Bachman

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.