Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Letterman

CBS News finally received anthrax in the mail. As usual, we're number three.

Doc Rivers

You only have a number for one day. After that, it is all up to you

Alphonsus Liguori

Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.

Anthony Marra

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

Cindy Margolis

I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up.

Chuck Martin

Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.

Andrew Jackson

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

Amitabh Bachchan

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life, and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that. So yes, the content of our television and our cinema is escapist in nature because we are there to provide entertainment.

Andy Rooney

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

Andy Rooney

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

Andy Stanley

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

Ann Richards

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Aneurin Bevan

Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.

Ang Lee

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

Anant Agarwal

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

Anne Hathaway

I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

Anaxagoras

And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.

Anaxagoras

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

Chuck Palahniuk

What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

Christopher Parker

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.

Christopher Walken

I've made quite a number of movies that I've never even seen and I've made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw... Sometimes they end up on television.

Christopher Walken

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

Andrew Bird

I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.

Anna Louise Strong

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

Anita Pallenberg

They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.

Andrew Davies

I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

Ambrose Bierce

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

Alicia Silverstone

I've gained so much confidence as a woman from figuring out that I don't want to be destructive. I don't want to stomp through the world and be number one. I just want to tread really lightly and not destroy anything. Hopefully, I can try to mend some things. That's my goal.

Amy Lee

The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

Allan McNish

The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.

Allan McNish

It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

Allan Gregg

People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.

Ann Druyan

Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, and then he would retrace his thought steps so that he could make it absolutely clear, and that's one of the infinite number of things I learned from him.