Large Number Quotes

93 quotes by 88 authors

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. — Terry Pratchett
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others,… — Bertrand Russell
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. — Raoul Vaneigem
No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a… — Mark Zuckerberg
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up… — Carl Sagan
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. Itâ€™s like network television. Iâ€™m your local cable access… — Thomas Ligotti
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.… — Neil Gaiman
I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with… — Ilona Andrews
What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly… — Rene Descartes
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs. — Douglas Adams
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience. — Quintilian
Crowdsourcing can greatly increase the number of ideas entering the front-end of the innovation funnel, however, using the wrong source can result in a large… — D. James Kennedy
A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to… — Harold Laski
The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together. — Vint Cerf
I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number… — Sebastian Faulks
Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking… — Tom Stoppard
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number. — Malcolm Gladwell
For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently… — August Krogh
In 1878, after having finished my course of instruction at the School of Military Medicine of Val-de-Grace, I was sent to Algeria and put in… — Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

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