Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Pincus

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

Mortimer Adler

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Ovid

Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

Matt Groening

I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work that they do is really fantastic. It's a blast just to sit around with them in the writers' room and listen to all the filthy jokes that will never get on the air.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Mary Wollstonecraft

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

Mary Hunter Austin

Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water....

Mark Hamill

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.

Maria Monk

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

Oswald Chambers

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.

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.

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.

Martin Gardner

One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers.

Mark McCormack

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

Mark McGwire

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

Marion Bartoli

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

Niklas Zennstrom

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

Nicollette Sheridan

I'd rather be number one on the worst-dressed list than number two on the best.

Matt Gonzalez

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

Mark Twain

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Mark Twain

Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

Mark Twain

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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.

Madonna Ciccone

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it.

Louis L'Amour

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

Michael Schumacher

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.

Michael Schumacher

Ross Brawn knows that I prefer to have odd race numbers.

Michael Korda

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.