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Quotes About Number

Number one way life would be different if dogs ran the world: All motorists must drive with head out window.
~ David Letterman
A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.
~ Davy Crockett
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
~ Jeremy Bentham
When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'
~ Sherri Shepherd
A culture which leaves unsatisfied and drives to rebelliousness so large a number of its members neither has a prospect of continued existence nor deserves it.
~ Sigmund Freud
I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.
~ Pauley Perrette
Absolute value: the distance that a given number is from zero on a number line . . . always a positive
~ Meg Cabot
It seemed a pitifully small number of troops that the king of Attolia was offering, much smaller than Sounis had expected. He looked at the magus to see if he, too, was surprised, but the magus was looking at his hands. Sounis looked at Attolia, and she only stared back. No doubt she had overcome her own rebels with ten men and a penknife.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
That's 217," she said curtly.
~ Bentley Little
These two sentences suffice to show, as I shall try to prove, that Bergson does not know what number is, and has himself no clear idea of it.
~ Bertrand Russell
It remains to define successor. Given any number n, let ? be a class which has n members, and let x be a term which is not a member of ?. Then the class consisting of ? with x added on will have n+1 members.
~ Bertrand Russell
But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.
~ Ian McDiarmid
When I signed my contract to be in 'Grease 2,' my agent said, 'Well, she's going to have a number.' So I did! They wrote me a number where I was teaching Maxwell Caulfield how to be cool. It was called 'Cool Rider.' And it ain't in the movie.
~ Didi Conn
It was the 13th of the month, and 13 is my lucky number
~ Joshua Slocum
The gentleman had been an uncommonly affable fellow, but every time he counted to twenty (and he seemed to do so with strange frequency), he skipped the number twelve.
~ Julia Quinn
I have always liked playing with number ten. Since I was a kid playing indoors football, I have always used the number ten. At Corinthians I was also number ten.
~ Willian
The No. 9, a team's centre forward, is a number that means a lot and, God willing, I hope to inherit it some day.
~ Bojan Krkic
I have your cell number, Jodi. I'll call if I need backup. I'll call if I need information. And I'll call if there's anything that NOPD needs to know. Why didn't you just offer that right up front? Why didn't you just ask for it right up front?
~ Faith Hunter
Rick had acquired a new cell number while I was a tree.
~ Faith Hunter
Pero el 2 no ha sido nunca un número es una angustia y su sombra...
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
The secret of Giorgi's universe was number, for it was built, so he believed, by its Architect as a perfectly proportioned Temple, in accordance with unalterable laws of cosmic geometry.
~ Frances A. Yates
Number is no strength, courage only is.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
~ Arlen Specter
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
~ Margaret Spellings