Numbers Quotes

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

Rickey was never motivated by stats. He was motivated by numbers. Wins, runs, steals.

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

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

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!

Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence.

There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.

The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.

Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.

I've got Colin Firth's number in my phone!

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it.

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

I never pay attention, to no numbers, no views, comments ... I just try to keep on going, keep on living my life so I can continue to put out music that's real.

Age is really just a number to me and means every year I get to experience so much more.

Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.

Age is just a number for me! A person is as young as he feels.

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.

We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.

I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don't belong, who lack the numbers. I'm very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It's not fair to the people who went in early.