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Quotes About Counting

You ask a woman how many guys she fucked, she's not gonna tell you how many guys she fucked. She'll tell you how many boyfriends she had. Cause women only count their boyfriends. That's right, they don't count those miscellaneous dicks they had.
~ Chris Rock
Through her ingenuity she invented a shorthand Greek script in which a long written narrative could be transcribed with far fewer letters, and which is still used by the Greeks today, a fine invention whose discovery demanded great sublety. She [Minerva/Pallas (Athena)] invented numbers and a means of quickly counting and adding sums.
~ Christine de Pizan
The fire melts into velvety blackness. There are stars in the blackness, and I want to count them one by one, but they're dancing too fast...
~ Helen Dunmore
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
~ Lewis Carroll
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
~ Robert Herrick
Jos ei osaa laskea, elämässä käy köpelösti.
~ Janosch
You nearly killed eight people! I managed to gasp out loud. My count was closer to twelve, returned Havisham as she opened the door. And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
~ Jasper Fforde
Not fair! Okay, what's the record? How many times? If you can count them, he didn't drop you out. Nadine groaned, shuddered, grinned. 'Bitch.
~ Unknown
mas a la sazón contaba treinta años y me hallaba en París, donde no puede vivirse sin contar con algo.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from 'Sesame Street.'
~ Tyra Banks
Writing about Jerusalem was very stressful; every word counts.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Five is a Four letter word.
~ Unknown
Luke 14:28–30:
~ Tony Morgan
she counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she went and put them on the ledge in the cliff to cheer him up.
~ Tove Jansson
EIGHT HUNDREDY FIVE!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Six hundred and NINE! Six hundred and FORTY-TWO!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
As the director of one of the agencies providing free mental health services says, the Audubon Society spends more time, care, and money counting birds than we do counting homeless people.
~ Danielle Steel
There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
~ William Shakespeare
The sands are number'd that make up my life.
~ William Shakespeare
counted my money and reckoned my total worth at something less than fifty dollars. Although, as I said, I was without real fear in my plight, I could not help feeling a trifle insecure, especially
~ William Styron
Sólo hay algo mejor que gastar el dinero: contarlo. Porque sólo lo gastas una vez, pero puedes contarlo todas las que quieras, y decir: Es mío.
~ Xavier Velasco
But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.
~ Clay Aiken
Remember this presidential candidate can count.
~ Herman Cain
I do a lot of counting. Cigarette butts, trees, fence slats, clouds, or the number of paving stones between one phone pole and the next, the windows along the way to the bus stop in the morning, the pedestrians I see from the bus between one stop and the next, red ties on an afternoon in the city. How many steps from the office to the factory gate. I count to keep the world in order, I said. Paul
~ Herta Muller