Quotes About Counting

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic." - Liebniz

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs.

My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably learned to count by putting pawn tickets in numerical order in the back room of the shop.

Kuu laskenut ja Seulaset On keskiyö, minun aikani on ohi Nukun yksin

In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

Got it. You're fourteen. I'm proud you can count that high. It's a testament to the modern American education system. But I should probable point out that you're not the only one. I'm told you go to a school with a whole class of-get this-kids who are fourteen.- Ash

From Addy in Berlin came the news that all social gatherings had been banned except for weddings and funerals, where the number of people could not be higher than twelve. (I wonder if that's counting the bride and groom, Cole's mother said, and his father joked: How about the corpse?)

Já se passaram três anos? [...] A rapidez com que os anos se passaram era angustiante. Quantas vezes ainda teria três anos para viver?

As the flow of patients and cash had continued to rise, Ethan was spending up to six hours each night counting the money.

She counted the seconds with the beats of her heart.

I didn't know anything then about odd-metered bars of music, but as Burt told me years later, you don't count those beats, you just feel them and the tension that they create.

you'd think that after eighteen years—twenty-one years, if you count the three we were together

I can't die yet, honey. I haven't finished counting the stars and don't you know, my darling girl, that you will never be alone, because there is always love, and love lives forever.

I read the news today, oh boy Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire And though the holes were rather small They had to count them all Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.

I still have to count on my hands! I'll be in a restaurant doing a tip and I'll be like, 'What's 20% of this?'

On one of the shores the cuckoo was counting my years.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes big round numbers.

You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one!

I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)