Inspirational Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Numbers are the smallest unit of meaning I know. Words are the next largest unit of meaning, and in spite of the confusion they…

— Beverley Brenna

It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

— Phyllis Bentley

I was fine with numbers, but it took me a longer time to grasp simple things like spellings.

— James William Middleton

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

— William Zinsser

That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.

— Carly Fiorina

We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the idea that…

— Bill McKibben

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand…

— Michael Nesmith

“In its proper role, a number counts the missing words.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Kate Bush

“The world of numbers and words is odd. A number is the only word that doesn’t lie and words can be very deceitful; they…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Numbers behave, words do not.”

— Don DeLillo