Numbers Quotes

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.

There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.

If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.

We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change

More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.

My number one beauty secret is to stay true to yourself and figure out what works best for your body.

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer.

The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.

I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four." He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

We have seen in recent years a large increase in the number of people coming in and cases of people going back, living in Cuba, but still receiving American benefits. That cannot be justified.

Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.