Numbers Quotes
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Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over.
Zadie Smith
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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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The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry. Her mother is the princess 'Prime Numbers' in the world of numbers. She inherits the purity from her parents.
Kato
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Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.
Vladimir Putin
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Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.
William Francis Buckley
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There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.
Kanye West
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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
Robert Wyatt
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My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family that was very involved with the legal battles against apartheid—the great treason trials in the 1950s and early '60s, and later with the legal resources center that my mother founded. My father was involved with a number of very prominent cases that had political aspects to them, whether it was the inquest into the Sharpeville Massacre, the death of Steve Biko, or one of the trials of Nelson Mandela.
William Kentridge
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I look really bad in one of those orange suits with the numbers on the back. It doesn't do anything for me.
Mike Rogers
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The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.
Woody Hayes
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The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
Adolf Galland
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My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.
Barack Obama
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The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated.
G. Ledyard Stebbins
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Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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We see, from almost every conceivable angle throughout the Scripture, that there is no doctrine more clearly taught than that it is God's will to heal all who have need of healing, and that they may fulfill the number of their days according to His promise.
F. F. Bosworth
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God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
Paul Erdos
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I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.
Steve Garvey
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God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man.
Leopold Kronecker
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The United States is doing our part by increasing the number of refugees we resettle and I want again to commend Angela [Merkel], and more importantly, the German people for the extraordinary leadership and compassion that you have shown in the face of what I know is a very difficult challenge.
Barack Obama
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I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
Rowan Williams
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Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
Ogden Nash
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[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.
Umberto Eco