Numbers Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

I haven't even thought about a world record. I just want to go out there and have fun. I think when you focus too much on the numbers, you don't see anything that's out there.

People who won’t take step number one never take step number two.

One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever.

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

Ross Brawn knows that I prefer to have odd race numbers.

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.

They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

From 1971 to 1993 my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

There's no question that the number one contributor to climate change is livestock production. The quickest way to make an effect is to immediately start on a vegan diet.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

I think God loves to speak to us prophetically, because there are a number of things which happen when you receive a prophecy.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.