Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's one of the better players on our team. I think that he's established he's one of the better receivers in the game. His numbers reflect that.

Hunter S. Thompson

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

James Bovard

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

Leonhard Euler

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Leonhard Euler

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.

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.

Nicholas Sparks

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

Muhammad Ali

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

Mitchell Hurwitz

There was so much talk about the movie and we thought, "Wouldn't it be great to still do the movie, but to give everybody this thing they didn't see coming?" Even with the number of episodes, it was reported that there was going to be 10 episodes, and then there was talk about adding more.

Martin Jacques

There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

Nathan Myhrvold

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Naomi Campbell

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

Mo Brooks

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.

Mitt Romney

The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a billion dollars is a very big number.

Mitt Romney

Securing the border is priority number one.

Mitt Romney

I went to a number of women's groups and said: 'Can you help us find folks,' and they brought us whole binders full of women.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

Nelson Mandela

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

Noam Chomsky

Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components... the syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation. The first of these is interpreted by the semantic component; the second, by the phonological component.

John Ashbery

If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.

Kenneth Koch

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