Numbers Quotes

Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.

Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.

Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.

To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities.

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

I can count off on one hand the number of times I've used testosterone gel - because it doesn't really do much.

I'm not the number-one guy here ... if it translates to winning, I don't mind taking a step back as far as roles.

It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

Two or three times a week, I drive by the houses of numbers 78-100 just to rub it in.

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.

Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact.

I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.

In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able.

Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

Nobody brings numbers to life like Horace Dediu does.

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

I am not who you thik I am,' I say. 'Who are you?' 'I am number Four.

How great in number are the little minded men

Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.

It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed the envelope in a number of key areas of theology.

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive, for the writer.

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game

Can't believe the number of tracks I get sent every day now. Everyone is at it! There's no way you can keep up and I have two A&R guys!

Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.