Quotes About Counting
With characteristic exuberance Tom named this curiously constructed house Castel des Tours saunz Nowmbre, which means the Castle of Innumerable Towers. David Montefiore had counted the innumerable towers in 1764. There were fourteen of them.
~ Susanna Clarke
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Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knew from his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the largest number that most people could visually appreciate. Put seven dots on a page, and most people can take a quick glance and declare, "Seven." Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost.
~ Julia Quinn
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The gentleman had been an uncommonly affable fellow, but every time he counted to twenty (and he seemed to do so with strange frequency), he skipped the number twelve.
~ Julia Quinn
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Ownership is not the most important thing. IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS. Nothing
~ Felix Dennis
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Te has parado alguna vez a contar las olas? —me preguntó de repente. —¿Contar las olas? No. ¡Vaya absurdidad! ¿Qué sentido tiene contar algo que no termina nunca? —Tampoco el tiempo termina nunca y no dejamos de contarlo.
~ Francesc Miralles
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One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason
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The viral video—four million views and counting—had been recorded on a tourist's iPhone in Central Park. On the screen, Hester's
~ Harlan Coben
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Count your blessings
~ Haruki Murakami
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If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
~ Stanis?aw Lem
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Jedi breathing exercise Luke Skywalker had urged upon me when trying to recruit me as a Jedi. Breathing in through my nose to a count of four, I held the breath for a seven count, then exhaled in eight beats.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
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He'd always been just the way he was, a person who was happier counting than feeling his way through life.
~ Michael Lewis
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I remember my mother and I sitting down counting off our pennies to pay our bills. We really had nothing.
~ Diana DeGarmo
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You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.
~ Jodi Picoult
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Eenie, meenie, minie, mo" is based on a counting system that predates the Roman occupation of Britain, that may even be pre-Celtic. If so, it is a rare surviving link with the very distant past. It not only gives us a fragmentary image of how children were being amused at the time Stonehenge was built, but tells us something about how their elders counted and thought and ordered their speech.
~ Bill Bryson
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After counting all the sheep in the world I enumerate the wildebeests, snails, camels, skylarks, etc., then I add up all the zoos and aquariums, country by country. By early light I am asleep in a nightmare about drowning in the Flood
~ Billy Collins
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Since the World began it is certain that there have existed fifteen people.
~ Susanna Clarke
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I counted the letters. There were exactly a hundred of them. I thought this must be important.
~ Sylvia Plath
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tunnel into Ocher Bar, the long cavern below the Counting Room.
~ Tad Williams
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He stretched his crayoned mouth, and nodded, and there stood all his actors in a line, though somehow it was still hard to count them, still difficult to be sure how many of them there were.
~ Tanith Lee
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Beckman Coulter Counter.
~ Ted Dekker
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3+3 son 6 y el que cuenta.
~ Julio Cortazar
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Libre el bebé y fajado el hombre, la pediatra de adultos, Dama Ciencia abre su consultorio, hay que evitar que el hombre se deforme por exceso de sueños, fajarle la visión, manearle el sexo, enseñarle a contar para que todo tenga un número. A la par la moral y la ciencia (no se asombre, señora, es tan frecuente) y por supuesto la sociedad que sólo sobrevive si sus células cumplen el programa.
~ Julio Cortazar
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You've got rights. Lots of rights. Sometimes I count them just to make myself feel crazy.
~ Frank Miller
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Trishiffany said. "And your child was the 129,285,656,702nd." "Do you know how many hours I spent sneaking around here in the middle
~ Helen Phillips
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