Numbers Quotes · Page 57

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of…

— Edward Abbey

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I…

— Mindy Kaling

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

— William Wells Brown

There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number…

— Edward Snowden

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

— Gustave Courbet

Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count…

— Dottie Walters

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger…

— Pierre Omidyar

Certainly jellyfish are seasonal, and owing to a complex range of environmental features there are years when they will appear in far…

— Steve Backshall

Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation,…

— Swami Vivekananda

I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing…

— Wole Soyinka

God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends…

— Marques Houston

Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of…

— Luke Salisbury

We cheer the presence of an openly gay woman or man on television there are large numbers of people in Virginia and…

— Mel White

A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue…

— John C. McGinley

At an early age, I knew there were a lot of things I couldn't do. My father was a doctor, and my…

— John Ridley

California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was…

— Gary Miller

America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of…

— Bob Costas

In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to…

— John P. Kotter

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the…

— Pope Leo XIII

As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written…

— Billy Collins

If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number"…

— Alexander Grothendieck

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something…

— Phil McGraw

I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you…

— Barack Obama

No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of…

— Chris Kyle

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

— Anonymous

I don't agree that you need an enormous number of American troops. Saddam's army is down to one-third than it was before,…

— Kenneth Adelman

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find…

— Edward Albee

I'm brilliant at working out numbers up to 180 but if you ask me to split a restaurant bill I'm rubbish.

— Adrian Lewis

Age is really just a number to me and means every year I get to experience so much more.

— Shay Mitchell

Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

— Dave Barry

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any…

— John Yoo

I had all this attention from all these girls that would have never liked me in school, coming up to me and…

— Calum Hood

I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number…

— Randall Munroe

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

My cards do big numbers, I'm always on big cards, I'm always entertaining the crap out of the crowds.

— Greg Hardy

The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and…

— Walt Dohrn

Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.

— Candace Bushnell

Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.

— Charles Bukowski

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

— Mae West