Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ada Lovelace

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

Abraham Clark

Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.

Ali Farahnakian

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

Alfred North Whitehead

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alec Baldwin

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

Albert Einstein

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

Albert Einstein

The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.

Albert Einstein

The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

We'd like to see some of the trend numbers turned around.

Abigail Adams

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Aaron Paul

That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.

A. R. Ammons

With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.

Abbie Hoffman

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

One of these numbers is going to be a peak. I don't think it's $520,000 (the BP deal), but I'd be surprised if it was over $700,000.

I was surprised that I was able to pull the numbers that I have.

No one has any idea where they are getting their numbers from.

Vandana Shiva

The problem of numbers can only be dealt with by recognizing that people have a fundamental right to economic security. If you provide them with economic and environmental security, the population will stabilize itself.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Jane Austen

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

Jane Austen

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

Jane Austen

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Janna Levin

Topology and number theory are my faves.

Jane Smiley

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

Morgan's numbers were outstanding. It was all trading.

Numbers can give you a ... sense of the organization, but they can't give you the whole sense,

Deval Patrick

I can't get those numbers to work, Tom.

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Kyle Whittingham

I don't know what his numbers were. But they weren't good.

Steve Tisch

I'd be shocked if the suggestion internally to recommend two teams ever comes up. I think the numbers are too big. I think it would be an overwhelming suggestion. Over time, possibly.

Ideally, we'd want to work ourselves out of business. There will always be some people who need help. But, ultimately, we want to work to see the numbers going down.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.

Cameron Sinclair

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.