Quotes About Number

It is a famous theorem first proved by the great (Italian-) French mathematician Joseph L. Lagrange in 1770 that every number is, indeed, the sum of four squares.

just because of her connections. That had nothing to do with it. Holly was Holly. And if layer number three was what McGrath wanted

But you need to know whose number it is, right?" I said. "You know some way of doing that without a warrant?" he asked. "Maybe," I said. "Why don't you just call it up and see who answers?

A square lot covering four acres was about a hundred and forty yards on a side. Homes on the left and the right of the street put number twenty-five about twelve lots out from town. About a mile, maybe.

Which was the records department of the city offices. Which had a suite number all its own, on a crowded multi-line floor directory, outside a brick-built multi-purpose government building, which because of its age and its shape Reacher figured had once contained a courtroom. Maybe it still did.

A FEW YEARS AGO a man won the Spanish national lottery with a ticket that ended in the number 48. Proud of his "accomplishment," he revealed the theory that brought him the riches. "I dreamed of the number 7 for seven straight nights," he said, "and 7 times 7 is 48.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

The Deputy Sub-Bursar heard no more; he had slipped out of the vestibule and was looking up a number in the telephone book.

Number 7 opened last night. It was misnamed by five.

Conservation," Pinchot famously wrote, "means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.

That's in the actual patent. Really! You can find the patent and read it for yourself. All you have to do is Google its official USPTA number, which is US10144532B2.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

the rifle found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building was a 6.5-caliber Mannlicher-Carcano with the serial number C2766

Suddenly, Kat turned to face him again. "Oh, and Howard?" "Yes?" "FYI—my number is listed." With her parting shot, she sashayed off, hips swinging, leaving him with his mouth hanging open. Slowly, a big, sappy grin spread across his face.He scores! Nothin' but net.

Wilma had twenty-one brothers and sisters. She was child number twenty.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

An astrologer told Coco Chanel that five was her lucky number. So she named her first perfume Chanel No. 5 and launched it on the fifth day of May (the fifth month). The rest, as they say, is history.

The fact is, there's no single magic number that defines profitability for a game.

'Jia Aur Jia' is like my first proper fun, masti Bollywood film. I have a full-on dance number.

The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.

and you would be unutterably flibbergasted if you knew the number of stout bicycles that partake serenely of humanity.

When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of actors and famous people.

26 is my favourite number.

Fifty is a pretty cool number.