Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg Cantor

Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

Gene Hackman

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Gary Hamel

The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.

Jenni Rivera

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

I don't think the Arbitron numbers have peaked yet.

I do think this project is just too big. We all know the rumor -- they need the size to make the numbers work.

He's one of the better players on our team. I think that he's established he's one of the better receivers in the game. His numbers reflect that.

Hunter S. Thompson

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

Over time, it should reduce the number of unrelated. It's going to take some time for that to happen, and it's not going to be an overnight fix.

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Charles Dance

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

Valerie June

My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.

Steny Hoyer

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

Mathieu Schneider

We didn't play like the number one seed. We put ourselves in a position where it could all be over early.

We'd like to see some of the trend numbers turned around.

When you see the kind of numbers we've seen, it has to be a high-volume operation.

Kelly Jones

We're not sure what the (staff) numbers would be.

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Jean Kerr

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

There are a surprising number of tapestries that survived from the 16th to 18th century. You can find a 17th-century tapestry for $3,000 to $4,000, and then there are half-million-dollar tapestries.

There are a substantial number of women with no discernible risk having C-sections.

Bob McKenzie

There are any number of variables that come into play.

The question is not the number of syringes but what was in them. The point is not the number of needles.

The question is not the number of syringes but what was in them.

James O'Shaughnessy

Tip number one is you have to start saving immediately,

Reid Scott

You've got to have confidence and trust in your cast. You have to have confidence and trust in your director, in your editor. It's such a team effort; I really think you have to pull yourself out of it and just trust. I think the number one thing you can do is just trust everyone around you.

We have the payroll number tomorrow - that's all that matters.

Abigail Adams

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Aaron Paul

That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.

A. R. Ammons

With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.

Abbie Hoffman

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

Adrian McKinty

With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.