Numbers Quotes · Page 77

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the…

— Steven Pinker

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

— Margaret Thatcher

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions…

— Ayn Rand

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw…

— Nick Carter

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

— Carl Sagan

I read that MTV's Real World got 40,000 applications. That's amazing, such an even number. You would have thought it would be 40,008.

— Mitch Hedberg

I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or…

— Anurag Kashyap

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And…

— Linda Vester

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

— Umberto Eco

We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this…

— Douglas Hofstadter

He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love…

— Eleanor Farjeon

My first love is my mother. She did so much for us as children as a single parent. I watched her make…

— Betty Wright

Let me just say the rules are what they are in the Republican Party. You have to have X-number of delegates in…

— Marco Rubio

All of these years I've been doing my program I was under the impression the Republican Party wanted to beat Democrats. And…

— Rush Limbaugh

I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled…

— Leni Zumas

As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…

— Jonathan Kozol

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and…

— Edmund Burke

Let's not forget that for thousands of years the institution of marriage has been between a man and a woman. Until quite…

— Dallin H. Oaks

It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there…

— Enos Mills

The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that…

— Naomi Klein

Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline…

— Plato

Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars…

— Nancy Pelosi

The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machinelike objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics,…

— James E. McDonald

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

— Terrell Owens

Derren Brown doesn't really predict the lottery numbers. But there is an enormous amount of entertainment in there.

— Peter Molyneux

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

— Carlos Beltran

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

— John Part

Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the…

— Jake Halpern

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

— Jerry Coleman

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily…

— Stephanie March

I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if…

— Branch Warren

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

— Mark Skousen

I just want to fight and be remembered as the best, who fought everyone and beat them. Then the money, the numbers,…

— Israel Adesanya

As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as…

— Gregory Nicotero

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

— Felix Klein

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one…

— Greg Norman

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

— H. G. Wells

I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd…

— William Golding

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

— David Hilbert