Quotes About Counting

He started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

I think there's something heavenly about numbers, anyway.

General Macarthur said sharply: 'Of course it won´t come. We´re counting on the motor-boat to take us off the island. That´s the meaning of the whole business. We´re not going to leave the island...None of us will ever leave...It´s the end, you see-the end of everything...

That fellow couldn't count his balls and get the same number twice.

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

In the end, all that time I spent in the 'Star Wars' universe fostered galaxies of creativity and made me a better person here on Earth, because it taught me that everyone counts. That's why I can sincerely and with a straight face say: 'May the Force be with you.'

I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed... anything that could be counted, I did.

Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah! - The Count Sesame Street

And at three o'clock in the morning, as they lie beside us peacefully slumbering away, we wake up in a cold sweat, cheeks flushed, teeth clenched, hearts pounding, wondering: How many more laps do we have left? One hundred? One thousand? Six? Ninety-four? Isn't there somebody out there who can give us a clue?

I've tried counting sheep like everyone recommends, but what tends to happen is that my brain thinks it's seen the same sheep twice and that messes up my count, and when I think there's no more sheep to count, another three will come running along and startle me. Or just as I think I've finished counting, an elephant comes running in. By this point I'm wide awake.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

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

It is the devotee's job to chant God's name. It is God's business to keep count.

If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.