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.

Theodor Adorno

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Terry McAuliffe

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

Terry Pratchett

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

Terry Pratchett

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

Michael Flatley

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

Michael Behe

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

Michael Behe

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

Michael Bloomberg

If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.

Melinda Gates

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

Michele Bachmann

This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.

Michael Palin

I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

I hadn't been playing that badly, just racking up big numbers every now and then and throwing shots away,

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.