Numbers Quotes
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Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.
Paul Davies
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It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.
Haki R. Madhubuti
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The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.
G. H. Hardy
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I did Nancy Sinatra in Vegas a number of times, and then the Sinatra family, when we did Frankie and the Muppets. Big show in Vegas.
Hal Blaine
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I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
Robert Wyatt
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From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a
Paige Bradley
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The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.
Iamblichus
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There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.
Rachael Price
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There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.
Jerry Coleman
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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."
G. H. Hardy
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If I can't blow to significant heights, at least I can inspire the niggas that's doing the big numbers.
Lamont Jody Hawkins
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Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
Patrick Ness
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
Plato
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These numbers show more fully the impact of the attacks of Sept. 11 on our country, ... We had been anticipating these numbers.
Elaine Chao
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With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.
A. R. Ammons
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No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
Chris Kyle
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You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.
Moses Malone
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It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.
Emile Coue
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The number of 'unneccessary' errors that have been committed on move 41 are legion.
Edmar Mednis
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There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.
Dalai Lama
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Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
Umberto Eco
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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 Feldon
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It makes you wonder how this was discovered, because these are some pretty big numbers here. You can't have complete confidence in these numbers yet. I don't think management completely has the situation in their grasp.
David Joyce
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When would I stop being second choice? Would I ever be number one to the person I cared most about in the world?
A. Meredith Walters