Numbers Quotes
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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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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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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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Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.
David H. Hubel
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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
Nate Silver
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You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.
Quentin Crisp
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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
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From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a
Paige Bradley
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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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OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.
Karen Walker
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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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Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
William Falconer
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These narrow-footed forms I was making, I thought, gosh, I could push those further, not to construct them the way Hans Coper did but to work in my own manner but push it more toward that form. And I learned to do that and enjoyed it for a number of years.
Warren MacKenzie
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Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.
S. Robson Walton
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The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
Norman McLaren
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Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
Mother Teresa
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Based on the number that they found, The New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton had basically clinched the primary 'cause you added the superdelegates to the number of delegates you'd already gotten. But this was on the eve of the California and New Jersey primary.
Terry Gross
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I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.
Roy Keane
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There is safety in numbers.
Euripides
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Heavy Connection is just basically about psychic stuff...it's kind of about connections that you're not normally making. It's like a fate number where you're making psychic connections that you're not really aware of but they're there.
Van Morrison
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My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'
Nita Ambani
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I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
Tom Stoppard
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Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
William of Occam
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Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.
Simon Sinek