Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ada Lovelace

In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the results of operations are those peculiar results which correspond to the nature of the subjects of operation.

Ada Lovelace

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

Ada Lovelace

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

Abraham Clark

Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.

Nick Lowe

We know they'll put pressure on us and, number one, we have to be able to rebound. We especially have to keep them off the offensive boards.

Ludwig von Mises

Those who satisfy the wants of a smaller number of people only collect fewer votes-dollars-than those who satisfy the wants of more people.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

While we recognize some fares have been increased, we're pleased a number of fares have (gone down), ... The reductions are significant.

Unlike most brokerage companies, you're not just a number here.

Ian Blair

We made a small number of administrative changes,

We've had hundreds of people waiting at stations but we just don't have enough room. We're doing everything we can ... but the numbers are just quite heavy.

Robert Kiyosaki

Did you know that lack of information is the number one barrier to wealth?

We have been working with the NASD on this for a number of months,

We have to open up because of the number of weapons we have.

Use the numbers we have and let the principals work it out.

Dolores Huerta

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

The governments in the past week have done everything they can to keep the numbers down.

Conan O'Brien

Trump Entertainment Resorts declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Or as Donald Trump describes Chapter 11, "Back-to-back number ones!"

Colin Powell

Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.