Numbers Quotes · Page 153

People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but…

— Jesse Owens

It’s okay to show up at a guy’s house with a dozen roses and declare your undying affection. It’s okay to have…

— Veronica Chambers

I would love to feel satisfied doing a Hindi film when there is no restriction of commerce, which is song and dance,…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up…

— Donald Johanson

Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.

— Pythagoras

I am not a big fan of investors asking for revenues upfront. Investors seeking numbers are being too myopic. However, I personally…

— Naveen Tewari

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school…

— John Engler

There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting…

— Austin Kleon

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

— Jai Rodriguez

C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in…

— Jon Foreman

My birth weight was 7 pounds, 11 ounces, and you know those numbers are good numbers.

— John Part

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

— George Ade

You know, the murder - the number of murders in our country this year [2016], went up more than they have in 45 years.

— Donald Trump

The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining…

— Georg Cantor

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation.…

— Paul Lynde

I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one…

— Neil Gaiman

I have always been a letter writer, and I found when my numbers got over half a million, I couldn't think about…

— Heather Cox Richardson

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

— Robert Musil

Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to…

— Alex Berenson

I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of…

— Jay-Z

I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult…

— M.I.A

What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous…

— Robin McKinley

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the…

— Ron Chernow

It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't…

— Paul Beatty

You don't want to fall into the trip of doing a 'Predator' story every week for the rest of our lives just…

— Chris Hansen

Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

— Eric Edmeades

You make sacrifices. You sacrifice yourself. Do you want to possibly win a championship? Or do you want to be the same…

— Gary Payton

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

— Asghar Farhadi

Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average…

— Norman Ralph Augustine

[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity…

— Umberto Eco

I think that Russia is very aware that they are on notice when it comes to certain issues. They are very aware…

— Nikki Haley

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.

— Dean Cain

I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to…

— Bo Ryan

A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.

— Barack Obama

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.

— Rudy Giuliani

In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph…

— William Stanley Jevons

Any person should have enough sense to know that a PM should have public support. Numbers should be with them.

— Yogi Adityanath