Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ellen DeGeneres

Beauty is not between a size 0 and a size 8. It's not a number at all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

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 don't think the Arbitron numbers have peaked yet.

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.

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.

James Bovard

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

Neale Donald Walsch

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Neale Donald Walsch

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

Morley Safer

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

Morey Amsterdam

Even the police have an unlisted number.

Joseph Addison

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Joseph Addison

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

Jose Carreras

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

Jorge Luis Borges

The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

Kevin Spacey

I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.

Joe Walsh

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

John C. Reilly

There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.

E. B. White

The lineout should be a contest. I spoke to Clive (Woodward) on Tuesday and we spoke about the numbers in the lineout.

Mahatma Gandhi

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

Mahatma Gandhi

A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

James Taylor

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

James Surowiecki

Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.