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Quotes About Number

Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.
~ Steve Coogan
Now me, " said Mr. Vandemar."What number am I thinking of?" "I beg your pardon?" "What number am I thinking of?" repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot, " he added, helpfully.
~ Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Operator, give me the number for 911!
~ Homer Simpson
Slim and neatly groomed, he looked like a really sexy mathematician unaware that he was a prime number. I wanted to unbutton his shirt, muss his hair, and exclaim, "Good heavens, Professor Dracula, you're stunning!
~ Unknown
You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal.
~ Martin Amis
You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal
~ Martin Amis
Love is just a number and maturaity is just a level
~ Unknown
Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.
~ Maurice Druon
Okay, boys, you've done worn me out, I'm gonna get going," I said. "Yeah, okay, cool," Paul said, "We're having a party here on Wednesday, why don't you come back? And give me your number, too, for sure." No one had ever asked me for my number before. I gave it to him and every guy in the room and then I left, excited and liberated
~ Megan Hart
He's Post-it-noted the window," Tom says, peering to see what it reads. "It says 'Call me' and his mobile number. I might just do that," he muses. "He's kind of cute.
~ Melina Marchetta
through a vision of actual manifested destiny the climax of the very times you are living in, and the beast fed on a number, and the number be 666. The mark of the beast is represented by the beast embossing the number 666 through a tally of gold. "Those who take this debit
~ Michael Knight
seven was known as the number of the "virgin" because no number below seven enters into (divides) it, nor does it "reproduce" another number within the first ten.
~ Unknown
starting point would be to say that one society is "better" than another if a greater number of its people have access to experiences that are in line with their goals.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
3. Theology is needful because of the large number of alternatives and challenges abroad at the present time.
~ Unknown
Of course it must be noted that no decimal expression, no matter how many decimal places are used, will ever exactly equal an irrational number; a decimal is a fraction, and an irrational, we saw, cannot equal a fraction.
~ Morris Kline
irrational number cannot equal a whole number or a fraction.
~ Morris Kline
Everyone believes in zero as a number, but we always ignore it when counting. We start at one.
~ Unknown
We end up creating more demons, multiplying chaos and destruction, adding more to the original number that descended from heaven.
~ Unknown
Fariq took the phone without asking and redialed the number, as if her difficulty might be the result of general female incompetence
~ Nell Freudenberger
Simply by the eternal laws of coincidence the key to room number nine gets lost most often by distracted travelers.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
To Goethe we owe the profound saying: 'The mathematician is only complete insofar as he feels within himself the beauty of the true'. Here we feel how nearly the secret of number is related to the secret of artistic creation. Mathematics, then, are an art. The development of the great arts ought never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at contemporary mathematics.
~ Oswald Spengler
The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The IRS has a special toll-free number for persons having problems figuring their tax forms. It's designed especially for those who like to listen to busy signals.
~ Pat Williams