Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Muhammad Ali

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

Mitchell Hurwitz

There was so much talk about the movie and we thought, "Wouldn't it be great to still do the movie, but to give everybody this thing they didn't see coming?" Even with the number of episodes, it was reported that there was going to be 10 episodes, and then there was talk about adding more.

Martin Jacques

There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

Nathan Myhrvold

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Naomi Campbell

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

Mo Brooks

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.

Mitt Romney

The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a billion dollars is a very big number.

Mitt Romney

Securing the border is priority number one.

Mitt Romney

I went to a number of women's groups and said: 'Can you help us find folks,' and they brought us whole binders full of women.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

Leonhard Euler

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Leonhard Euler

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

Paul Ford

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.

Barbara Feldon

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

Terry Pratchett

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.

Linus Torvalds

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

Paul Lynde

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

Elyn Saks

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

John McCain

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

John Jewel

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

John Oliver

You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'

John Dean

Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the poll numbers, people knew Nixon was deeply involved in Watergate and stayed with him for a long time. It's a natural tendency.