Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Jones

We're not sure what the (staff) numbers would be.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

Daniel Kahneman

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

Conor Oberst

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

Daniel Day-Lewis

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

Alexander Pope

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Albert Speer

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

Douglas Massey

Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for a large number of people have to change over time.

Douglas Rushkoff

In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

Donna Karan

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

Donald Berwick

Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

Donald Byrd

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop,

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

Doris Lessing

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Donna Shalala

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

Donna Tartt

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

Donald Knuth

How can you own [...] numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

Donald Knuth

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

Cynthia Kenyon

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

E. B. White

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.

Donald Trump

Marco Rubio has got the number one worst attendance record, and they want him to be president, right?

Donald Trump

I don't hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don't trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.

Dan Castellaneta

Operator! Give me the number for 911!

David Simon

I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They end badly, in terms of being either fraudulent or by inspiring legislations that makes things worse. So, I regard myself as someone coming to the campfire with the truest possible narrative he can acquire.

David Lynch

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

Daniel Woodrell

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

Daniel Tammet

I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

Daniel Tosh

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

Dane Cook

Any guy that refers to dating women as the hunt or being on the prowl should be evaluated for a number of conditions.

David Chase

I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.

David Cassidy

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.