Quotes about numbers
numbers people different
When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain
numbers race four
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
numbers remember i-can
isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
numbers storm prosperity
Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone. Ovid
numbers air als
I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work that they do is really fantastic. It's a blast just to sit around with them in the writers' room and listen to all the filthy jokes that will never get on the air. Matt Groening
numbers chiefs distinction
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. Mary Wortley Montagu
numbers atheism gains
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. Mary Wollstonecraft
numbers water elements
Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water.... Mary Hunter Austin
numbers names actors
I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in. Mark Hamill
numbers church reproach
On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience. Maria Monk
numbers hands used
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others. Oswald Chambers
numbers way seven
Let's put it this way, I like number seven. Michael Schumacher
numbers race odd
Ross Brawn knows that I prefer to have odd race numbers.
numbers reader
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers. Michael Korda
numbers names fifth
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
numbers people evil
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.
numbers curves tribes
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe. Michael Kinsley
numbers variation theory
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. George C. Williams
numbers warning growing
And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself. George Carey
numbers world chaos
The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos. Hayao Miyazaki
numbers people gestures
It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.
numbers people dollars
Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE. Fran Tarkenton
numbers wealth can-do
Wealth is the number of things one can do without. Fyodor Dostoevsky
numbers years lists
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. John Pople
numbers eternity should
Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ... Norman Foster
numbers work-out track
When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it. Norman Jewison
numbers number-2
What's wrong with being number 2? Mitch Albom
numbers want speak
To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves. Edgerrin James
numbers people awakening
A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see. Eckhart Tolle
numbers fire envy
A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors. John F. Kennedy
numbers quality pages
I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving. Jonathan Lethem
numbers phones skins
With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn’t going to work. Jonathan Ive
numbers sight trying
When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.