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Quotes About Number

Unable to reach back to her book bag, she was reduced to reading the advertising cards above the heads of other passengers. One sign said 'Kiss warts and bunions goodbye.' Another ad was for Right to Life proponents. If you knew an unwed mother-to-be, there was a number where you could turn her in.
~ Carol O'Connell
It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8 000.
~ Casey Kasum
So what was that all about?" "I think," Jace said, "that she asked if she could touch my mango." "She said that?" Jace shrugged. "Yeah, then she gave me her number.
~ Cassandra Clare
We have a Homicide, and a Code Five in number Eighteen-oh-three.
~ J.D. Robb
Right? That's exactly what I think. He's a tough number, aren't you, Rhamp? Also poops out toxic waste. You'll learn that later.
~ J.R. Ward
The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.
~ John Hull
I am a typical No 9.
~ Aleksandar Mitrovic
I'm just like the rest of the guys. I'm a little different in a lot of ways, but I'm still a player with a number on his back and if I'm unable to produce, they'll find somebody else to fill my spot.
~ Donovan McNabb
When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!
~ Richard Grant
Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
~ William Falconer
There were a number of spots on the backsplash as well, behind the oven, which might have easily been the remnants of a fat, juicy steak, but
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
From my personal observations, the Spanish style of play, with a large number of passes, is somewhat similar to the Brazilian one.
~ Fred
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
~ Steven Wright
The total number of living humans was now sixteen.
~ Neal Stephenson
Almost as miraculous as life itself was the number of ways it could end, or at least turn into a living hell. And for each of those there was a different, exquisitely evolved medical sub-subspecialty.
~ Neal Stephenson
Can I call up any actor in Mumbai? I can, and they can say wrong number and hang up!
~ Mani Ratnam
A god rejoices in an odd number.
~ Vergil
There are crimes which become innocent, and even glorious, through their splendor, number, and excess: Hence it is, that public theft is called Address, and to seize on Provinces unjustly, to make Conquests.
~ la rochefoucauld vii
There is no other limit to the size of the Socialist party than the number of workers and wage-earners.
~ Leon Blum
THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT PITY. THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT REGRET. THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT NUMBER. THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING.
~ Cassandra Clare
Theophilo. To come then to the discovery of that which we seek. I say that if in the first efficient Cause there be infinite power, there is also action from which there resulteth a universe of infinite size and worlds infinite in number.
~ Giordano Bruno
The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory, in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system. "But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." —Matthew 5:37
~ Author Unknown
An epidemic of measles broke out, and Dr. Moses Greeley Parker worried that if the operators succumbed, they would be hard to replace. He suggested identifying each telephone by number. He also suggested listing the numbers in an alphabetical directory of subscribers.
~ James Gleick