“Hold it right there. You men from the bank?" "You Wash's boy?" "Yessir and Daddy told me I'm to shoot whoever's from… — Ethan Coen Joel Coen Copy Share Image
School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three… — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood.… — Manuel Rivas Copy Share Image
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that… — Kenneth Prewitt Copy Share Image
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%)… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing.… — Mark Davis Copy Share Image
I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on the last… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The United States census records from 1850 to 1940, and all available Church records, uniformly show a preponderance of males in Utha,… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Look at the Bethlehem birth. A king ordered a census. Joseph was forced to travel. Mary, as round as a ladybug, bounced… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
