Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Melville

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

Herb Alpert

It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

Henry David Thoreau

In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.

Jerry Garcia

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

Jeremy Bernstein

The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer...

Jesse Jackson

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

Jean Kerr

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

James A. Garfield

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

James A. Baldwin

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

Jacqueline Susann

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Christopher Lee

Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.

Gareth Gates

Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.

Gareth Bale

I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

Frank Zappa

Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.

Jesmyn Ward

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

Jerzy Kosinski

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Hillary Clinton

There is no doubt that the increasing numbers of women in the economy has helped fuel significant growth everywhere. And economies that are making the shift more effectively and rapidly are dramatically outperforming those that have not.

Hillary Clinton

I personally am thrilled at the numbers of people, and particularly young people who are coming to support Bernie Sanders campaign. I hope that I will be able to earn their support. They may not support me now, but I support them and we'll work together.

Ezekiel Emanuel

We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.

A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.

Grover Norquist

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

Graham Greene

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

Graham Greene

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

Gifford Pinchot

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

Georgina Chapman

My family is my number one priority.

Harriet Martineau

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles ...

Hugh Downs

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

Howard Zinn

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.

Hannah Arendt

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

Guy Finley

One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.

Gotye

Have your friends collect your records and then change your number...

Gottfried Leibniz

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.