Numbers Quotes

I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

There is a remote tribe that worships the number zero. Is nothing sacred?

The number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure.

That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if South Africa was xenophobic.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.

"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."

No number before zero. The numbers may go on forever, but like the cosmos, they have a beginning.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

Every number has a name! Every name has a story! Every story matters to God!

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

America is number one in wind power.

It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.

Number was the substance of all things.

Why add prime numbers? Prime numbers are made to be multiplied, not added.

In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago.