Famous Quotes & Sayings

Merton Miller

Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm.

Mason Cooley

Pity drowns in numbers.

Marvin Olasky

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

Martin Van Creveld

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Martina Hingis

I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant

Michael Moore

One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.

Michael Gove

I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.

Michael Gove

The promise to take back control of our borders. I will end free movement, introduce an Australian-style points-based system for immigration, and bring numbers down. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

Michio Kaku

... each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes its complex motions in space-time by splitting and recombining, a large number of highly sophisticated mathematical identities must be satisfied. These are precisely the mathematical identities discovered by Ramanujan.

Michael Jordan

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.

Michael Jordan

Number 45 doesn't explode like Number 23 used to.

Martha Plimpton

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

Mark Zupan

Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

Mark Zuckerberg

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

Terrell Owens

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

Terrell Owens

Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

Ted Nelson

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

Ted Nelson

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

Ted Nelson

I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.

Ted Cruz

When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.

Malorie Blackman

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

Mandy Moore

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

Malcolm Turnbull

We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

Mahatma Gandhi

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

John C. Maxwell

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

Jack Welch

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers

James Madison

Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the choice would be less likely to be diverted from him, by the intrigues of the ambitious, or the bribes of the rich.

James Madison

The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been clearly pointed out by experience . . . . A very material object of this power was the relief of the States which import and export through other States from the improper contributions levied on them by the latter.

James Madison

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Joe Eszterhas

I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me, I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did.

Jimmy Breslin

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

Jimmy Breslin

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.