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Quotes About Tally

The people went out and voted the banana man, and the Tabulation Center counted the tally sheets.
~ Jovenel Moise
God must like to get off by Himself sometimes and caper. Must get mighty tiresome, keepin' tally on folks and gettin' the sun up and tuckin' it in bed and bringin' the rain on and all, and all the time actin' stiff and proper. That surely was it, God must like to throw Himself around some and be silly if He felt like it.
~ A.B. Guthrie Jr.
When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.
~ Jon Favreau
Tally sticks were quite explicitly IOUs: both parties to a transaction would take a hazelwood twig, notch it to indicate the amount owed, and then split it in half. The creditor would keep one half, called "the stock" (hence the origin of the term "stock holder") and the debtor kept the other, called "the stub" (hence the origin of the term "ticket stub.)
~ David Graeber
I've told you the truth and my name isn't Woman, it's Tally.' 'I've never heard the name Tally before. That's not a name.' A glint touched his dark eyes, something secret and perverse and then the corner of his mouth lifted, the closest thing she'd seen to a smile yet. 'I shall call you Woman.
~ Jane Porter
If you're keeping score, win.
~ RED AUERBACH
If you're keeping score, win.
~ RED AUERBACH
app we particularly like is called Tally.13 (Full disclosure: Tally was started by Jason Brown, who, when he was a student at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, took Thaler's class. We have no financial stake in his company.)
~ Richard H. Thaler
I just need to count the rounds and count me money afterwards.
~ Tyson Fury
There may be no better way to keep on eye on our leaders' penchant for pretending to royalty than to tally the cost of their travel and accommodations.
~ Tom Fitton
Whenever you can, count.
~ Francis Galton
There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.
~ Gene Mauch
The 1880 census had taken eight years to tabulate. But in 1890, the Census Bureau's Herman Hollerith, an engineer from Buffalo, New York, who'd taught mechanical engineering at MIT, introduced a reform that allowed for the census to be tallied in just a year.
~ Jill Lepore
After an hour the score was: Quancita—34 Radiz—51 Sally—froglegs Perla—9 and 21 Me— hoo-hoo-hooo
~ Joel N. Ross
Why are you still wearing...? Aya began. Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly? David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment. Work? Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.
~ Scott Westerfeld
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.
~ Scott Westerfeld
you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse - Cable to Tally
~ Scott Westerfeld
My name's Tally Youngblood," she said. "Sorry to disturb you, but this is a special circumstance.
~ Scott Westerfeld
David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly—Tally might eat you.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Tally really didn't have the strength to explain that she'd really meant her hangover, which was sprawled in her head like an overweight cat, sullen and squishy and disinclined to budge.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood
~ Scott Westerfeld
Spider-Man Go web. Fly. Up, up, and away web. Shazam. Web it. Tally ho.
~ Spider-Man
Dory mentally added another grand to the tally sheet for this job as a heat tax. And then another for the mosquitoes. And what the hell, a third for the freaking smell
~ Karen Chance