Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick McGoohan

Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number.

Patrick Ness

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

Patrick Rothfuss

After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

Patrick Rothfuss

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

Lilly Singh

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.

Leopold Kronecker

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

Leopold Trepper

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.

Paul Claudel

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Kenneth Koch

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Ken Blanchard

Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months. (81)

Kristi Yamaguchi

With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.

Kinky Friedman

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.

Olivia Newton-John

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.

Marg Helgenberger

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash

Marcus Terentius Varro

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Kevin Madden

The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first one in 2004. The news cycle is constant and there has been an explosion in the number of news outlets covering them. As as result we're witnessing news and entertainment melding together to create what I'd describe as the "American Idolization" of campaigns and politics.

Kevin Mitnick

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.

Kevin Mitnick

The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

Margaret Thatcher

I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

Margaret Cho

I'm really bad with trolls because I have a lot of really intense friends who are not necessarily doing things so legally. If I get trolled, [my friends will send me] an email with the person's Social Security number, phone number, pictures of his family, his business, his spouse. I see this person in his totality, and I feel so bad. I shouldn't have that power.

At this point, you root for volume. You start an LCS with a number in your head, and it's like playing blackjack. The big number is 21 (games).

At this point, you're doing everything they tell you and it's been static for a number of weeks. As long as I'm doing everything they tell me to do I'm pretty powerless.

Elizabeth Scott

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

Asghar Farhadi

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

Ashleigh Brilliant

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

Arlen Specter

The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Barbara Ehrenreich

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.