Numbers Quotes · Page 47

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

— Mary Landrieu

Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity…

— Jonathan Ive

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

— Mick Jagger

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

— Irving Kahn

I get ratings. If I didn't get ratings, they [media] wouldn't do it. They don't care about poll numbers, they only care…

— Donald Trump

I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a…

— Millard Drexler

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

— Ron Chernow

No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a…

— David Brooks

Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands…

— Neil Gaiman

Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that…

— Erich Fromm

In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations,…

— Jim Garrison

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems…

— Anonymous

Jeb Bush cheated on his diet and had a fried Snickers bar, pork on a stick, and a beer. Jeb Bush said…

— Conan O'Brien

I'm really tired of Americans being the only ones asked to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to charity, and,…

— Mike Huckabee

The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge…

— Vandana Shiva

Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?...…

— Aldous Huxley

Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning…

— Jackie Chan

WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France,…

— Julian Assange

People are most shocked and most in disbelief that I go to the office every day. I have a job. When I'm…

— Ashton Kutcher

A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over…

— Joe Hill

I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several…

— John von Neumann

A number of foreign policy experts distanced themselves from Donald Trump, not Michael Flynn.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.

— Raza Jaffrey

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

— Quintilian

When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

— Robert Wagner

To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.

— David J. C. MacKay

We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to…

— Susan L. Taylor

There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.

— Holly Hunter

Monaco was my first race of the season and I spoke with a number of people and all seemed to be very…

— Martin Sorrell

Being a start-up has nothing to do with the numbers. It's that everyone who works there has the chance to do everything…

— Tobias Lutke

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

— Kathryn Schulz

I once dated a girl that was wild. She was so wild that one night she gave her phone number to the…

— Rodney Dangerfield

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone numbers.

— Silvio Berlusconi

I donate lots to charity. I don't necessarily tell everybody the number or what I do.

— Lindsay Davenport

In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.

— Lisa Lopes

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of…

— Jack Kemp