Numbers Quotes

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!

Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.

If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore.

Beauty is not between a size 0 and a size 8. It's not a number at all.

Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.

Number 47 said to number 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, its a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.

My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.

Numbers are a fearful thing.

I adore having people over to my home. My number one reason I love that is because I love to see people at ease with each other.

If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

We are the number one custom yacht builder in the world and my goal is to stay there

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.

Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do.

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.

Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have been featured and referred to as a "cult leader."

I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly.

Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.

I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men who are supportive of the enlightenment of women. Such men are rare.