Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graham Nash

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

Jessica Brown Findlay

Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

H. G. Wells

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

Jay Leno

President Obama announced this week that he is going to start sending out his own messages personally on Twitter. And today Anthony Weiner said, “It’s a trap, don’t do it!” But President Obama’s tweets are a little different than Anthony Weiner’s. When Obama sends out pictures of something obscene, it’s the unemployment numbers.

Carly Fiorina

You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.

Candice S. Miller

Without taking enforcement actions against all criminal aliens, programs such as Secure Communities may result in large numbers of identified criminal aliens being released back into the society which, of course, is an unacceptable outcome for our communities.

Buzz Aldrin

We're number one on the runway.

Bryan Cranston

There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.

Murray Walker

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

Muqtada al Sadr

The US-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

Kendall Jenner

Modeling is my number one priority - one hundred percent.

Keira Knightley

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

Karen Walker

OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.

Keith Richards

I was Number 1 on the Who's Likely to Die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

Kevin O'Leary

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

Kerry King

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

He played better than what his numbers show.

Imre Lakatos

Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.

Ichiro Suzuki

I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.

Gloria Steinem

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

Geraldo Rivera

The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.

Harry S Truman

I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

Ivan Pavlov

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.

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

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.