Numbers Quotes
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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.
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Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.
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Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.
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I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.
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The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
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Golf, more than most games, has a number of clichés, often successfully disguised as 'tips'. Watch out!
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I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer.
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To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.
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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
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Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.
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Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
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The number of 'unneccessary' errors that have been committed on move 41 are legion.
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The E.U. should pay more attention to the plight of African nations hosting large numbers of refugees themselves - at times for decades.
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I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."
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Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.
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The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
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People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.
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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
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Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
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Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
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Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!
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Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.
