Numbers Quotes · Page 92

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for…

— David Walliams

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

— Martin Lewis Perl

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

— Jai Rodriguez

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we…

— Jon Wynne-Tyson

Passionate people watch rugby league, we've just got to expand the passion and the numbers.

— Lindsay Hoyle

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be…

— Jaggi Vasudev

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers…

— Brit Marling

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

— Kate Bush

Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in…

— Samuel Johnson

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for…

— W. Averell Harriman

The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth,…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you…

— Cynthia Kenyon

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of…

— Richard Neal

Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far…

— Andre Iguodala

And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems…

— Simon Sinek

In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number of new…

— Ronald Reagan

happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once.…

— Jennifer Egan

I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do…

— Nora Roberts

It's funny how certain objects convey a message - my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever…

— David Sedaris

The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us…

— Carlos Bulosan

If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble,…

— Hermann Bondi

The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we…

— Paul Romer

Golf, more than most games, has a number of clichés, often successfully disguised as 'tips'. Watch out!

— Kathy Whitworth

Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.

— Michele Montas

The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

— Cornel West

Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

— Jimmy Carter

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.

— Jessie Matthews

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

— Hill Harper

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

— Herbert Wilf

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

— George R. R. Martin

Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

— Jack Huston

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

— James Wolfe

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

— Vivian Vande Velde

Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides.

— John Stuart Mill

Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.

— Milton Berle

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference…

— Blaise Pascal

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600…

— Judd Gregg