I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world.… — John Currin Copy Share Image
By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I'd love to continue to produce movies. My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in… — Roberto Aguire Copy Share Image
Those first memories of my modeling career are not my favorite. At the beginning, it was tough. I was very lucky, my… — Bianca Balti Copy Share Image
Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
Television viewership has been declining for a number of years. The internet has been blamed. Everything has been blamed. Except for what… — Edward Allen Bernero Copy Share Image
It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet,… — Frances M. Young Copy Share Image
I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I can see the appeal of panel shows to commissioners. It's fairly cheap to make and it's fairly reliably watched in fairly… — Rhod Gilbert Copy Share Image
We differ with the Israeli Government about a number of things, and they know that. In the past, I have discussed with… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
Foods of the Gods”) - “After water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If there's 10,000 little boys racing around the world and there's only 10 girls, best case 100, the numbers are stacked massively… — Susie Wolff Copy Share Image
In future years a number of you will become spiritual teachers. After many years of study and doing a good job, go… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are a limited number of promoters out there who care about creating music. You rarely meet a promoter who's like, "I… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
When I first started, I saw myself shooting documentaries or making documentaries, which is what I did, mostly, for a number of… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Abundance is the natural state of the universe--of this there can be no doubt. Just as the number of stars in the… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Direct Grants, private schools which took huge numbers of state pupils, involved effective co-operation between state and private sectors - a thing… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already… — Veronika Skvortsova Copy Share Image
Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security,… — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
Whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
When you guys go into some kind of a deal, you know, are you going to do that development or not, are… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful… — Anita Elberse Copy Share Image
In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together,… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image