Quotes on Numbers

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

Author: Amy Adams

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Author: Scott Adams

It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

Author: Herb Alpert

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

Author: Gregory Bateson

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

Author: Paul Begala

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.

Author: John Bernal

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.

Author: Wilford Brimley

We rest our case on the production numbers.

Author: Mel Brooks

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.

Author: George Bush

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

Author: Wilt Chamberlain

Early numbers are always wrong.

Author: Mary Cheney

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Author: Chris Christie

In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.

Author: William Collins

When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

Author: Humphry Davy

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

Author: Michael Dell

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers.

Author: Dustin Diamond

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

Author: Galileo Galilei

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Author: Jean Guitton

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Author: Jean Guitton

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Author: Douglas Haig

We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.

Author: James Hoffa

We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.

Author: Edwin Hubble

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Author: Patricia Ireland

You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.

Author: Billy Koch

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

Author: Erich Leinsdorf

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

Author: Marvin Minsky

I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

Author: David Neeleman

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Author: Isaac Newton

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.

Author: Shaquille O'Neal

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

Author: Bill O'Reilly

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

Author: Irene Peter

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

Author: Helen Reddy

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

Author: Michael Scheuer

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

Author: Bjarne Stroustrup

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Author: James Thurber

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Author: Voltaire

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

Author: Gilbert White

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Author: Steven Wright

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

Author: Jack Youngblood

Success is impact, not just numbers.

Author: Rachel Rodriguez

Success is not measured by the numbers, but by the impact we have on others.

Author: Samantha Greene

Success is not defined by the numbers, but by the impact we leave on others.

Author: Sofia Martinez

Success is not defined by numbers, but by the impact you leave on those around you.

Author: Samantha Smith