Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

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.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Mary Wollstonecraft

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

Mary Hunter Austin

Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water....

Mark Hamill

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.

Oswald Chambers

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.

Murray Walker

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

Muqtada al Sadr

The US-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

Kendall Jenner

Modeling is my number one priority - one hundred percent.

Keira Knightley

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

Karen Walker

OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.

Keith Richards

I was Number 1 on the Who's Likely to Die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

Kevin O'Leary

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

Kerry King

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

Martin Gardner

One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers.

Mark McCormack

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

Mark McGwire

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

Marion Bartoli

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

Niklas Zennstrom

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

Nicollette Sheridan

I'd rather be number one on the worst-dressed list than number two on the best.

Matt Gonzalez

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

Mark Twain

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Mark Twain

Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

Mark Twain

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

Nicholas Sparks

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

Muhammad Ali

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

Mitchell Hurwitz

There was so much talk about the movie and we thought, "Wouldn't it be great to still do the movie, but to give everybody this thing they didn't see coming?" Even with the number of episodes, it was reported that there was going to be 10 episodes, and then there was talk about adding more.

Martin Jacques

There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

Nathan Myhrvold

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.