Numbers Quotes
There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.
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.
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.
The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
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 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.
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.
Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.
I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.
The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.
The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.
The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.
Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.
But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven – number seven it can count. They have made an observation. They are very clever birds.
So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.
If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.
I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.