Number Quotes

The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Fools are without number.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

Age for me is just a number.

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records.

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

We have repeatedly issued warnings, over a number of years. Following these warnings and these calls, anti-American explosions took place in a number of Islamic countries.

After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.

When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.

Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue.

I've watched what happens when a game like 'DragonVale' gets to number one on iOS. Suddenly there's ten other versions of it that hit the store. As a gamer, that bothers me. I don't like those companies.

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.

Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

What I want is to be number one.

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes.

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.