Numbers Quotes
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Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.
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I've never been one to look at numbers or think about stuff like that. The only numbers I worry about are wins and losses-that's always been my biggest priority.
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The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn into a vampyre, which equals a monster in just about any human’s mind. Choice Number 2: My body rejects the Change and I die. Forever. So the good news is that I wouldn’t have to take the geometry test tomorrow.
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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.
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The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.
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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.
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Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
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There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.
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I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.
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If your life depended on coming up with a tally, if you could straighten its numbers into a flexible line around the moon and back a dozen times, a hundred … still you couldn’t count the planets that cohabit this planet.
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Not ugly for someone her age, but what she's doing with those numbers and letters seem unholy.
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I still love coming home, but home is where the heart is. I take those whom I love most with me. That's my number one. My number two is being ready.
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This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.
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As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.
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Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
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I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.
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It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.
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Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.
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They might not get in as early as they thought they would. I think that the numbers are tainted. You just don't hit 70 home runs and have guys hit it in back-to-back seasons. It opens your eyes that there's something wrong here.
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The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.
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There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.
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I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing plays. It's a tactile process, theatre, unlike a number of other forms of the creative work.
