Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

Neil Gaiman

The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time.

I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.

John Muir

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

John Wilbanks

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

John von Neumann

I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.

John von Neumann

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number– there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Nora Roberts

Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.

Nikola Tesla

Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

Nas

I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

Millicent Fawcett

The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

John Pople

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.

Matthew Rhys

I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.

Matthew Dowd

This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.

Mark Skousen

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

Mark Shields

There is always strength in numbers

Mark Shields

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

Patricia Ireland

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Patricia Briggs

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Paul Weller

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.

Phil Harding

Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

Peter Drucker

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

Peter Drucker

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

Maria Sharapova

My next goal is to be number one in the world.

Max Planck

Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.

Max Baucus

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

Maurice Strong

I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.

Maurice Strong

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

Matthew Lillard

The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.

Marilyn Manson

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

Marilyn Manson

I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.