Number Quotes

• The concerns expressed in the draft recommendation are based on the wrong premise. The Commission's assessment and the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines advises Ireland to seek to achieve economic stability. This is exactly what the Irish government has sought to do in the budget in a number of ways.

  

  Charlie McCreevy
  • Stability
  • Assessment
  • Recommendation

• In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.

  

  Carmine Gallo
  • Writing
  • Speaking
  • Satisfying

• I don't think anybody's too big to fail. I think the - I think if what you've got is sort of a large number of institutions who are going to fail, then that ends up affecting the system.

  

  Marc Lasry
  • System
  • Institutions
  • Anybody

• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Facts
  • Aim

• When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Business
  • Color
  • Red

• And Ritchie has now scored 11 goals, exactly double the number he scored last season

  

  Alan Parry
  • Goals
  • Number
  • Scored

• Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

  

  Michael Flatley
  • Life
  • Times
  • Knocked

• Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

  

  Wilfred Owen
  • Ambition
  • Receive
  • Willingness

• You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • Fight
  • Number
  • Box

• Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 - two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

  

  Ally Carter
  • Number
  • Ice Cream
  • Cookie

• If you go to Canada or Los Angeles, you will get to see many South Asians there, but on screens, they are so less in number. It is abnormal not to have much South Asians on screens.

  

  Radhika Apte
  • Many
  • Screens
  • Abnormal

• I don't even know my own phone number.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Number
  • Phone

• A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

  

  Dennis Sharp
  • Truth
  • Hearing
  • Deception

• I'm not in "Bend and Snap." But, I will say that when I first heard they were making Legally Blonde into a musical, I thought, Well, of course, there's going to be a bend and snap number, because it's just, I think, one of the most natural moments in the movie to expand into a musical number.

  

  Katherine Shindle
  • Natural
  • Heard
  • Musical

• Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Revolution
  • Number
  • Final

• Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Money
  • Control
  • Number

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

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Nightmare

• If you have the number one shirt, and you don't play any games, it doesn't really help you.

  

  Loris Karius
  • Games
  • Number
  • Shirt

• It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Dance
  • Couples
  • Remark

• I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.

  

  Mike Crapo
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • About

• I can count the number of great Cabernets I made at Beaulieu only by taking off my socks and shoes, but I can count the number of great Pinot Noirs on one hand with change left over.

  

  Andre Tchelistcheff
  • Hand
  • Shoes
  • Number

• The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then several reasoners might be better than one. But reasoning isn't like hauling rocks, it's like, it's like racing, where a single, galloping Barbary steed easily outruns a hundred wagon-pulling horses.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • People
  • Reason
  • Number

• I had the perfect number for my 4-iron second shot there. The 18th hole was a culmination of the hard work today. It was a real struggle, almost the exact opposite of last Sunday. ... I didn't want it to come down to the last hole, but I knew I could do something there, told myself I had the opportunity to do something great.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Perfect
  • Second
  • Shot

• White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.

  

  Jane Elliott
  • Freedom
  • Number
  • Peoples

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