Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert T. Bakker

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

Robert Smithson

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

Robert Smith

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

Robert Long

Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give

Sara Paretsky

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

Vincent Kartheiser

Education is the number one priority.

Warren Buffett

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

Warren Buffett

In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

Virginia Woolf

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Samuel Lover

There's luck in odd numbers.

Virgil Goode

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

Ursula Andress

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

Tyrese Gibson

I don't look at women as groupies. To me, a groupie is a stalker. If you're a fan, then you're a fan. But I can look at a woman and become a fan of hers instantly. I'll tell a woman, "Look, I don't want your phone number. Just give me your autograph. Can I take a picture with you?"

Robyn Hitchcock

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Robert M. Pirsig

The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

Vinton Cerf

We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.

Walt Whitman

If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

Sarah Dessen

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

Sandra Bullock

There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it's with one person or with 20.

Roseanne Barr

Suddenly, people had three phone numbers but never answered their phones.

Saint Augustine

Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

Yanni

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

Winston Churchill

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

William Warburton

Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately by being indifferent to the scale of collateral damage, you're killing hostages in the hope of intimidating those that you want to intimidate. And more likely than not you will not intimidate them. You'll simply outrage them and make them into permanent enemies with the number of such enemies increasing.

Vladimir Putin

Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.

Wilfred Owen

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do

Wayne Allard

Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species.

Walter Lippmann

Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe. They have, therefore, to be pieced together out of what others have reported and what we can imagine.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

William Randolph Hearst

If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.

William Butler Yeats

So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.