Numbers Quotes · Page 61

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is…

— Brian Greene

While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.

— Simon Calder

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be…

— Bruce Lee

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

— Shakuntala Devi

It's amazing how lucky Westlife were and what we achieved. It's very rare to have seven number ones in a row. Ridiculous…

— Shane Filan

There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 am. It could be a right number.

— Doug Larson

I was offered only item numbers and did not want to accept as I had it ticked off my bucket list.

— Mandira Bedi

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get…

— Tom Seaver

The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret…

— Harry Johnson

My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are…

— Don Omar

But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even…

— Stefan Zweig

I actually love 'Saturday Night Live,' like a sports fan watches their favorite team to see how they're doing. I know the…

— Mike Birbiglia

We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just…

— Mother Teresa

I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found…

— Gregory Maguire

The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a…

— Hilary Putnam

The mythology around colorblindness leads people to imagine that if poor kids of color are failing or getting locked up in large…

— Michelle Alexander

Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though…

— Carl Hart

I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729,…

— G. H. Hardy

I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc…

— Hal Duncan

To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give…

— Savitri Devi

I worked in Bhs, but I was only there for a couple of weeks before I got fired because I needed the…

— Joanna Page

The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past…

— Cheikh Anta Diop

When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Christmas is the biggest holiday in numbers - in terms of gross amounts - because you have one and a half to…

— Jacques Torres

I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody's face while we're having sex; because, number one, what if…

— Laura Kightlinger

There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the…

— Anne Sexton

I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number…

— Freya Stark

The more consistently I face lefties, the better I'm going to hit off of them. I think my numbers throughout my career…

— Brandon Crawford

Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.

— John Marshall

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

— Dan Brown

George W. Bush even stopped in Pennsylvania to try his hand at the lotto and gave up when he could only think…

— Craig Kilborn

Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never satisfied. But as never means "in no case", I…

— Henri Poincare

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

— Hermann Weyl

A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.

— Royal Robbins

I met this girl, she was an actress, and she gave me her number. It started with 555.

— Mitch Hedberg

For me, it's just about keep moving the ball and keep making the right play and the numbers will come.

— Aaron Gordon

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had…

— Jon Gordon

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my…

— Don Johnson

...the last player I truly idolize... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona)

— Hristo Stoichkov