Quotes About Number

They streaked past a black door. STOREROOM NUMBER 71, it said on it. WHIPS - ALL SHAPES AN SIZES. Whips!' cried Veruca Salt. What on earth do you use whips for? For whipping cream of course, said Wonka. How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn't a poached egg unless it's been stolen from the woods in the dead of night! Row on please!

Infinity" is not a number; it is a metaphysical hang-up.)

I put the Corvette in its spot in the parking garage and rode up in the elevator and went into my office and closed the door. There was a message on my answering machine from someone looking for Bob, but that was probably a wrong number. Or maybe it wasn't a wrong number. Maybe I was in the wrong office. Maybe I was in the wrong life.

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Vampire, At some time in the future, you're really going to want my number. So I thought I would give you this: 867-5309. XOXO, Daniela, the Ice Queen

Eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-nine—

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

I prefer pi.

rise of a number of new natural-law religions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism. These

The church will not be judged by the number of baptisms or upon the size of its membership, but upon how faithful it has been to teaching the whole counsel of God.

give me your cell phone" "What for?" "So i could admire the fine technology a human woman can afford to buy." He held out his hand. "I want to give you my phone number. What did you think?

We try to make theories of our perception. We try to explain what was or is making repeated indents upon our senses, life. We rationalize and give something a name, a number, try to recognize a persistent quality to some element of sorrow, distance, feeling.

In fact, regression analysis demonstrates that the number one determinant of deal multiples is the growth rate of the business.

Dad and I had a deal from when I was about 10 that if I ever did play Test cricket we'd both get a tattoo of my number, so we'll see if we actually go through with that or not.

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

Like the number of apples Contained within a single apple seed Each opportunity that we seize Contains an untold number of benefits.

Call my cell." He whipped out a card and passed it over. "Here's my number." I didn't bother to look at it. "I'm guessing 666- 6666." "Oh, right. As if that number weren't snatched up decades ago.

Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth root of 100.

Will it be the idea of absence of any number-or the idea of a number for such absence? Is it to be the mark of the empty, or the empty mark?

Oh, the laws of physics and of logic…the number system…the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

Upon my return I found the call in my box. It was Anne's number, then Anne's voice on the wire, and, as always, the little leap and plunk in my heart like a frog jumping into a lily pool. With the ripples spreading round.

No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.