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Quotes About Counting

I don't answer. I count in my head: five syllables, seven, five. A tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Una noche de 1920 había cometido el error de calcular (contando con otro medio siglo de existencia) cuántos latidos le quedaban aún y ahora la absurda rapidez de la cuenta atrás le irritaba y aceleraba el ritmo en el que se oía morir.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The year has held its ups and downs for me; I'm sure it has for you, too. I'm counting on the year ending on a note of joy (and gingerbread!) and look forward to a new year brimming with promise and peace.
~ larson kirby ii
So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting, knitting, that they their very selves were closing in around a structure yet unbuilt, where they were to sit knitting, knitting, counting dropping heads.
~ Charles Dickens
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
~ Charles E. Jefferson
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
egg tart, I watched a waiter count up all our dishes
~ Grace Lin
One, two, ... five!" "Three, my lord.
~ Graham Chapman
II I'm no longer myself in here I know I'm number fifteen in the eleventh Row
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Mercedes stepped back to her brother's side, the baby in her arms while Vidal stared at the watch's shattered face, its hands counting away his last moments as meticulously, as it had counted away all the years since his father's death.
~ Guillermo del Toro
TWENTY-TWO HOURS AND FORTY-NINE MINUTES LATER (NOT THAT I WAS COUNTING OR ANYTHING) To:
~ James Patterson
TWENTY-TWO HOURS AND FORTY-NINE MINUTES LATER (NOT THAT I WAS COUNTING OR ANYTHING)
~ James Patterson
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
~ Aristotle
When you count your blessings, count life twice.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.
~ Rachel Nichols
Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered she went on with a sudden serious sweetness but nobody could ever count my love for you.
~ O. Henry
One dollar and eighty-seven cents.
~ O. Henry
Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered," she went on with sudden serious sweetness, "but nobody could ever count my love for you. Shall I put the chops on, Jim?
~ O. Henry
I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on.... - Conversations with Yahya Kemal
~ Orhan Pamuk
Then they all heard the town clock chime. The goblin put his head to one side as if he was counting. The clock chimed twelve times, and then the goblin giggled. "Twelve o'clock," he said, rubbing his hands together with glee.
~ Daisy Meadows
The two guys who ran the place, always in Williamsburg hipster uniforms of short-sleeved shirts and neatly trimmed beards that looked stuck on with spirit gum, paid, as ever, no attention to anything but the food and the money. Tallow imagined that every night they counted their money and prided themselves on having not made eye contact with anything human.
~ Warren Ellis
This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters.
~ Charles Pearson
Thirty dayes hath November, April, June, and September, Twenty and eyght hath February alone, And all the rest thirty and one, But in the leape you must add one.
~ William Harrison, 1577
Aprill, June, and September, Thirty daies have as November; Ech month else doth never vary From thirty-one, save February; Wich twenty-eight doth still confine, Save on Leap-yeare, then twenty-nine.
~ Cambridge Almanac for 1635