Number Quotes
4034 Number quotes by 2939 unique authors
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Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive;…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things,…
— Unknown Author
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I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.
— Mac Davis
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The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing…
— Leon M. Lederman
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White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white.…
— Jane Elliott
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Well, it seems that one day Dylan was drivin' up to San Francisco from New Orleans or somewhere, when our record [House of the Rising…
— Eric Burdon
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When it’s all said and done I would like to look back and think that I help to make modelling a possibility for a greater…
— Alek Wek
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It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.
— Hayao Miyazaki
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The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries,…
— Unknown Author
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Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no…
— Maurice Druon
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Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.
— Vivian Vande Velde
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In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None, however, have provided…
— Don Pendleton
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What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor…
— Leonard Mlodinow
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There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.
— Samuel Shem
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Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal], and since the number 13 has been so…
— Unknown Author
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Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted…
— Marci Shimoff
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My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it’s not just…
— Will Schwalbe
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Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.
— Kristen Ashley
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The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or…
— R. J. Palacio
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To the south, along the curve of the coast, Hezbollah is launching Katyushas, but I'm loath to say too much about them. The Party of…
— Tom Gross
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Guys would take runs at me even if I didn't have the puck. [On one occasion] my coach told me that the other team were…
— Cammi Granato
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I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight…
— John Gierach
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I'm not a guy that sets a number of goals. If I can go out and continue to have a consistent approach every day and…
— Matt Holliday
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The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato.…
— Tobias Dantzig
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