Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Ferriss

Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the freedom multiplier.

Stephen Colbert

I've said it before: equations are the devil's sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters, and symbols.

Stefan Zweig

But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands.

Spencer Bachus

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

Sophie Kinsella

I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.

Tim Berners-Lee

The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

Thomas Ligotti

Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.

Raymond Loewy

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

Vijay Singh

I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.

Vicente Fox

Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

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.

Susana Martinez

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

Tariq Ramadan

We are not competing for the good when we only compete for numbers, being preoccupied with how many converts we are gaining. The true competition for good only happens when we are implementing our values of justice.

Steve Southerland

One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.

Stephen King

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Stephen King

Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.

Stephen King

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

Stephen King

I am your number one fan.

Stan Lee

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

Sonia Gandhi

To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually Sarvodaya or the rise of all. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.

There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share.

Soren Kierkegaard

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

Tadashi Shoji

Dont wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

While we've made progress with our numbers, this will be a harder-to-reach group, and we have less money to do it.... Many people don't know or understand about the tax credit that they can receive. And so affordability is a barrier. We know that a disproportionate number of those who are still uninsured are young.

Sylvia Plath

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

Sylvia Plath

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

Sylvia Plath

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

Sylvia Plath

I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.

Tom Peters

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.

Tom Peters

'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.

Steve Garvey

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

Stanislav Grof

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.