Quotes About Numbers

It is in the land of dreamers, it is in the land the dreamers dream that dreams of justice and desire are as certain as numbers. It is in the land of insomniacs that justice and desire are dismissed as merely dreams. I was born in the first land and returned to the second: they were one and the same. You know its name.

Language changes over time. Meaning twists. Mistakes compound with each transcribing. Even those stalwart sentinels of perfection—numbers—can, in a single careless moment, be profoundly altered.

Obama's numbers fell by a slightly larger amount over his first few months because he enjoyed much more support right at the start from Republicans, support that eroded quickly.

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

Once an ebook hits the Kindle Top 100, sales tend to snowball as new customers discover it in greater numbers.

'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.

How's things, man?" The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jotted on the sleeve of his shirt, right up to the elbow. "Very good," said Peter. It had never occurred to him before that dark-skinned people didn't have the option of jotting numbers on their skin. You learned something new about human diversity every day.

Riemann found that in four spatial dimensions, one needs a collection of ten numbers at each point to describe its properties.

He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.

encendidas las lámparas, y encontré al conde yaciendo en el sofá, leyendo, de todas las cosas en el mundo, una Guía Inglesa de Bradshaw. Cuando yo entré, él quitó los libros y papeles de la mesa; y entonces comencé a explicarle los planos y los hechos, y los números. Estaba interesado por todo, y me hizo infinidad de preguntas relacionadas con el lugar y sus alrededores. Estaba claro que él había estudiado de antemano

How about we talk to the police together? You and me. There's safety in numbers." "I appreciate that, but I want to have some idea what's going on and who's involved before I do that. Until then, I think it's better that no one know he's here.

It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.

There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.

logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.

He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplication were discovered. Algebra was invented and provided an interesting diversion for a minute or two. And then he felt the fog of numbers drift away, and looked up and saw the sparkling, distant mountains of calculus.

Well, the way I see it, logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.

Sooner or later all things are numbers, yes?

You could trust numbers, except perhaps for pi, but he was working on that in his spare time and it was bound to give in sooner or later.

It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going around to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.

I've always liked Jordan Howard and what he's done in his young career. He's one of the top running backs, when you look at some of the production numbers.

I feel like, looking back, if I didn't have so many injuries, who knows where my numbers could be right now. But only God can judge me.

Judge me all you want as a player. Some people think I'm a great player, some people don't. That's fine. Numbers don't ever lie.