Quotes About Number

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

I never liked the term "experimental writing," but what else is a prose poem? Having written a number of them, I still don't know how they're written.

tiles in the hearth at number 6, real pot tiles

Anakin named the droid C-3PO, choosing the number three because he considered the droid the third member of his family after his mother and himself.

Nonetheless, a great number have flocked to the call." Hector frowned. "A warrior tends to lose his reluctance once he puts on his helmet.

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

Nick, space. Now. (Acheron) Go, Nick, fetch. Here, boy, here. You should let me borrow one of those leather collars you wear and give me a tag with Kyrian's number on it. 'In case of loss, call my owner.' (Nick)

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

A prisoner of war is supposed to be in uniform, and he's supposed to provide his name, rank, and serial number, when demanded. A man in a suit of clothes carrying phony identity cards and forged work permits? That man could easily be taken for a spy. When do you stop being the one and start being the other?

Despite the post-it note with her phone number on it, shes already little more than a fading memory. They all are.

Geometry is 'number in space', music is 'number in time'.

Eleven is important as the first number that allows us to begin to comprehend the measure of a circle. This is because, for practical purposes, a circle measuring seven across will measure eleven halfway around.

Ten, I thought, he's definitely a ten

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

action is best, which produces the greatest happiness for the greatest number

Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

For the conduct of the war: at the first, men rested extremely upon number: they did put the wars likewise upon main force and valor; pointing days for pitched fields, and so trying it out upon an even match and they were more ignorant in ranging and arraying their battles. After, they grew to rest upon number rather competent, than vast; they grew to advantages of place, cunning diversions, and the like: and they grew more skilful in the ordering of their battles.

The negative reactions to 'The Number of the Beast' were strange. When we wrote it, we never expected anything like that.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

The series LLC is supposedly designed so that by setting up (and paying the fees on) one asset-protected LLC you can protect a number of properties in separate series within the one LLC.

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

When I got to the NFL, they asked me what number I wanted, and I said No. 44, but they told me tight ends are not allowed to have that number. So I said, 'Just double it up for me if you can' and took No. 88. I figured I'd be twice as good as I was.

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.