Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Berwick

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

Donald Byrd

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop,

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

Duke Ellington

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Douglass North

Information costs are reduced by the existence of large numbers of buyers and sellers. Under these conditions, prices embody the same information that would require large search costs by individual buyers and sellers in the absence of an organized market.

Dr. Seuss

You have to be odd to be number one.

Dorothy Gilman

The best things arrive on time.

Dorothy L. Sayers

the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.

Donald Rumsfeld

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

Donald Rumsfeld

A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.

Dalai Lama

We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another. Therefore, it is likely that all beings in this universe have familial connections.

Doc Rivers

You only have a number for one day. After that, it is all up to you

Alphonsus Liguori

Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.

Anthony Marra

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

Anaxagoras

And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.

Anaxagoras

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

Chuck Palahniuk

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.

Christopher Parker

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.

Christopher Walken

I've made quite a number of movies that I've never even seen and I've made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw... Sometimes they end up on television.

Christopher Walken

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

Andrew Bird

I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.

Anna Louise Strong

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

Anne Sexton

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

Anita Pallenberg

They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.

Daniel Kahneman

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

Conor Oberst

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

Daniel Day-Lewis

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

Dan Castellaneta

Operator! Give me the number for 911!

David Simon

I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They end badly, in terms of being either fraudulent or by inspiring legislations that makes things worse. So, I regard myself as someone coming to the campfire with the truest possible narrative he can acquire.

David Lynch

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

Daniel Woodrell

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

Daniel Tammet

I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

Ambrose Bierce

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.