Numbers Quotes

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

Roy Jones still number one and it's gon' be that way baby! For all these doubters, him [points to Larry Merchant] and the rest of them that said Roy Jones is a fluke, now they know.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of mathematics.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate change and failure to take the actions that are necessary.

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

The number 7 shirt is an honor and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.

The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.

Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

Joe DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career can not be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

If I see MS Dhoni coming to bat at number 4, I will be the happiest person on earth

Mel Gibson will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers