Quotes about numbers
numbers love-actually people
In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually. Bill Nighy
numbers phones brain
Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks. Bill Nye
numbers jumping literature
You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC. Bill O'Reilly
numbers phones accountability
When you call us, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, we do have your phone number, and if you say anything untoward, obscene, or anything like that, Fox security will then contact your local authorities, and you will be held accountable.
numbers paradox prime
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself. Bertrand Russell
numbers worry firsts
My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time. Carlos Castaneda
numbers jewels scales
The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale. Carl Friedrich Gauss
numbers important problem
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
numbers age psychological
You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside. Cheryl Tiegs
numbers awards records
I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes. Chantal Kreviazuk
numbers vices arguing
Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers. But I would argue that there are big virtue effects in economics. I would say that the spreading of double-entry bookkeeping by the Monk, Fra Luce de Pacioli, was a big virtue effect in economics. It made business more controllable, and it made it more honest. Charlie Munger
numbers riding human-nature
With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.
numbers facts graphs
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.
numbers evil reason
There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either of good or evil. The latter are in the greatest number, so much more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us. Charles Mackay
numbers facts chance
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
numbers fixed bits
In the beginning was the word, but it wasn't a fixed number of bits.
numbers people world
The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising. Bill McKibben
numbers comedy pool
Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool. Bill Maher
numbers people broken
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful. Bill Ayers
numbers phones giving
I'll give you my phone number. When you worry, call me. I'll make you happy. Bob Marley
numbers ends searching-for-happiness
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
numbers shapes patterns
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals. Benoit Mandelbrot
numbers report
We don't have any big numbers to report because of FEMA,
numbers sidelines somebody thin
We're so thin on numbers that when you look on the sidelines to put in somebody else, you just don't have it. We're going to try to keep working on it and try to get better.
numbers seven wrong
We're going to need all seven of those guys. To put numbers on them, that would be wrong right now. Dave Tippett
numbers
We're going to look at the numbers and see if it's feasible.
numbers poor increase
Feeding the starving poor only increases their number. Ben Bova
numbers curves promise
5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve. Baldwin Spencer
numbers fool
Fools are without number. Desiderius Erasmus
numbers burning world
Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through Demi Lovato
numbers
We feel comfortable that the numbers we've got out there are achievable.
numbers speak
We know we don't get a lot of attention. We just feel we're a numbers team. We let our numbers speak for us.
numbers bills constitution
I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated. Dianne Feinstein