Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Rollins

Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.

Henry Rollins

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

Henry Giroux

I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant work of Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman, Loic Wacquant, Nancy Fraser, Tony Judt, and others.

Henry Blodget

In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.

Patricia Ireland

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Patricia Briggs

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.

Paul Weller

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.

Phil Harding

Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

Laura Lippman

There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

John Tyler

If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protection and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence.

James R. Thompson

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.

James Grant

To me the gold price takes the form of a very uncomplicated formula, and all you have to do is divide one by 'n.' And 'n', I'm glad you ask, 'n' is the world's trust in the institution of paper money and in the capacity of people like Ben Bernanke to manage it. So the smaller 'n', the bigger the price. One divided by a receding number is the definition of a bull market.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.

Luis Fortuno

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

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.

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.

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.

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.