Numbers Quote by William Zinsser

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

— Joan Didion

“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

A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing I can…

— Hasan Minhaj

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers

— Dustin Diamond

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

— Dean Smith

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ...…

— Alfred Binet

I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are.

— Tom Glavine

We put forth a very strong number. It's always hard to know, it's impossible to know what numbers are out there.

— Tim Purpura

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence…

— Robert Wyatt

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

— Rod Serling

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.

— Ian Mcewan