Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Kartheiser

Education is the number one priority.

Will Smith

I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.

Warren E. Burger

We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

Warren Buffett

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

Warren Buffett

In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

Warren Buffett

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

Wallace Shawn

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

Samuel Lover

There's luck in odd numbers.

Virgil Goode

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

Wayne Dyer

Love for yourself, love for the planet, love for each other. Love primarily for God - your number one relationship in life, your relationship to your source. Not something external to you, something that you're a part of, that you are connected to - just meditating on that, staying in that place, the place of God realization.

Ursula Andress

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.

Tyrese Gibson

I don't look at women as groupies. To me, a groupie is a stalker. If you're a fan, then you're a fan. But I can look at a woman and become a fan of hers instantly. I'll tell a woman, "Look, I don't want your phone number. Just give me your autograph. Can I take a picture with you?"

Vladimir Putin

Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.

Wilfred Owen

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do

Wayne Allard

Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species.

Stephen Colbert

I've said it before: equations are the devil's sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters, and symbols.

Stefan Zweig

But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands.

Spencer Bachus

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

Sophie Kinsella

I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.

Tim Berners-Lee

The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

Thomas Ligotti

Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.

Raymond Loewy

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

Vijay Singh

I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.

Ronald Reagan

We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

Roman Jakobson

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

Sam Neill

You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

Sacha Baron Cohen

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

Stockwell Day

Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.

Steve Crocker

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.

Mother Teresa

God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.

Penelope Cruz

I had things with numbers - because I love numbers - but it's not something I'm proud of. I'm proud that I was able to send them away, because you're much more present.