Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

H. L. Mencken

The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

Grace Paley

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

Georg Cantor

Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

Gene Hackman

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Gary Hamel

The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.

Jenni Rivera

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

Jean Guitton

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Jean-Francois Cope

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

Jean Dubuffet

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

Gloria Gaynor

I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.

Gloria Estefan

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

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.

He played better than what his numbers show.

Ian McDiarmid

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

I do think this project is just too big. We all know the rumor -- they need the size to make the numbers work.

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.

Enrico Fermi

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

Enrique Iglesias

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

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.

Ivar Giaever

I'm a skeptic. ...Global Warming it's become a new religion. You're not supposed to be against Global Warming. You have basically no choice. And I tell you how many scientists support that. But the number of scientists is not important. The only thing that's important is if the scientists are correct; that's the important part.

Jack Markell

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

Jack Herer

Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months.

Jack Abramoff

The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.

J. C. Watts

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

J. B. Smoove

There're rules to being the side chick. Rule number one: you're number two.

Isaac Newton

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Guy Lafleur

After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.

Guy Kawasaki

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

Guy Kawasaki

Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

Greg Ginn

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.