Numbers Quotes - Page 184

I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and frequently copulated, crammed into tiny, stifling cottages, lit and warmed by smoky peat fires. The only thing they didn't do together was bathe - largely because they didn't bathe.

There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.

Too many people today believe that you can fight fascism with fascism. This of course is an impossibility. Fascism times any other number always equals fascism.

You said I was your number-one pick." "And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you.

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

I can't give my phone number out. My phone number would be everywhere - everybody and their mom would be calling me.

The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have an how early they can retire and be supported by the state.

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.

Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through

Being the number one pick was a great opportunity and meant a lot to me.

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.

When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious. You own yourself.

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.

I thought if I gave people all of my journey in one go, it could be overwhelming and easily forgotten, and I didn't want to make an album where the single was so popular that you overlook the whole record. So three parts felt right - it's a number that can't be divided into.

At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend and he was making instruments, Paul Burwell and I were making instruments, Evan Parker was making instruments, and we knew Hugh Davies, who was a real pioneer of these amplified instruments.

Priority number one for too many of us is not the glory of God but the blessing of ourselves.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.