Numbers Quotes

... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.

There is safety in numbers.

You can't do sweatpants... ladies, number one cause of divorce in America, sweatpants, no!

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated.

The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.

Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.

The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.

The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

I have a number of proposals how to tackle this issue of self radicalization. I would set up a team exclusively dedicated to detecting and preventing lone wolf attacks.

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

I don't think dressing has anything to do with numbers. I know people of 30 who act like they're 97, and I have a few old-bag friends who are very hip.

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

I've worked out a Ninja Replacement Score for novels. It's basically the number of characters that need to be replaced by ninjas to make the book good.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

A flower doesn't count the number of bees that come nor does it pump up its smell just when you walk by. Its nature, as is ours, is to expand itself no matter if anyone ever loves us back.

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.

I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality.

Golf, more than most games, has a number of clichés, often successfully disguised as 'tips'. Watch out!

There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.

When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.

If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.