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Quotes About Number

There is no reason why any legitimate caller should be spoofing an unassigned or invalid number. And providers shouldn't be sued for doing the right thing by blocking illegitimate spoofing.
~ Ajit Pai
When women don't want to give out their phone number, they make up a number. This one girl said to me, "My telephone number? 456-78910." "Is that by any chance in the 123 area code?"
~ Ron Richards
All you have to remember is that every ordinary fraction can be converted into an infinite periodic decimal fraction. See? So is 0.428571.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.
~ Andrew Hodges
To confuse everybody, Microsoft never released a Windows 9. Microsoft skipped a version number when moving from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
~ Andy Rathbone
I remembered that Stacey was wearing a matching top and skirt made of gray sweatshirt material with big yellow number tens all over it. Her hair was pinned back with clips shaped like rainbows. Little silver whistles were dangling from her ears. It was all very cool, but it seemed kind of young looking. And she was drinking a glass of milk.
~ Ann M. Martin
ACATALECTIC  (ACATALE'CTIC)   n.s.[  Gr.]A verse which has the compleat number of syllables, without defect or superfluity.
~ Samuel Johnson
ALIQUANT  (A'LIQUANT)   adj.[aliquantus, Lat.]Parts of a number, which, however repeated, will never make up the number exactly; as, 3 is an aliquant of 10, thrice 3 being 9, four times 3 making 12.
~ Samuel Johnson
Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature. Why do these constants come together to make the particular number 1/137.036 and not some other number?
~ John Archibald Wheeler
If at any time, then we are troubled at the small number of those who believe, let us, on the other hand, call to mind, that none comprehend the mysteries of God save those to whom it is given.
~ John Calvin
Some just targets a big number of busy meetings in their large sales offices; others in a large number of big offices are busy in meeting just their sales targets.
~ Anuj Somany
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
~ Aristotle
I'm aware that De Gea is a good goalkeeper. He's had a great career, and he's been great over a number of years.
~ Kepa Arrizabalaga
We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.
~ Lloyd Bridges
The subject as multiplicity. Pain as intellectual and totally dependent on the judgement harmful projected outwards. Pleasure is a kind of pain. The effect is always unconscious. The inferred and imagined cause is transposed onto what follows in time. The only force that exists produces the same effect as the will: it commands other subjects, which change as a result. The continuous, fleeting, transitory nature of the subject. Mortal soul. Number as a form of perspective.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The invention of the laws of number has as its basis the primordial and prior-prevailing delusion that many like things exist (although in point of fact there is no such thing is a duplicate), or that, at least, there are things (but there is no "thing"). The assumption of plurality always presupposes that something exists which manifests itself repeatedly, but just here is where the delusion prevails; in this very matter we feign realities, unities, that have no existence.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I wore No. 24 at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada - one bib on the back and one on the front - and those are like my medals.
~ Eddie the Eagle
The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.
~ John Jewel
I can't count the number of times I've been sound asleep, woke up, and I was doing my hair.
~ Bill Engvall
I fell asleep during the draft, actually. I woke up, and I was picked No. 48. I didn't even know what number I was picked.
~ Marc Gasol
And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
~ Joe Henderson
Thirteen was my brother's number.
~ Brandon Ingram