Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demetri Martin

You can say 'Thanks,' and you can say 'Thanks a Million' - but any number in between?..

Dean Koontz

I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.

Dan Ariely

What people do is they pay the small loans first. Why? Because they enjoy making the number of loans smaller. But of course it is a very ineffective way to pay debt down.

Craig Ferguson

It's fantastic that Congress has an increasing number of women. Experts call an increasingly female presence in a previously male space 'the Bruce Jenner effect.'

Asghar Farhadi

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

Ashleigh Brilliant

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

Arlen Specter

The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

Barbara Feldon

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

Barbara Ehrenreich

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

Austin Peck

The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy.

We did really well. We were pretty short-handed when you look at total numbers for our team.

Charles Evans Hughes

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

Charles Bukowski

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

Brian Tracy

People don't trust conglomerates; they trust individuals. Network marketing brings trust and the quality of the relationship to the center of the business. And it enables you to expand indefinitely, simply by expanding the number of relationships.

Brian Tracy

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

Jamie Dimon

If the numbers are right, ICBC [Industrial & Commercial Bank of China], which already earns nearly twice as much as JPMorgan. They'll probably be going a lot faster over time, and one day they can be a lot bigger than us.

James Weldon Johnson

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

Derek Fisher

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

Deb Caletti

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

Deb Caletti

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Dianne Feinstein

I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated.

Dianne Feinstein

It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.

Dianne Feinstein

What we're going to see is the emergence of the lone wolf rather than the planning of large numbers of people to carry out large attacks...Explosives are getting more sophisticated.

David Sedaris

I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.

David Mitchell

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.