Number Quotes - page 18

The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles. (Flann O'Brien)
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. View quote
Edward Thorndike
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. View quote
Edward Thorndike
Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing. View quote
Venus Williams
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent. View quote
Charlton Heston
War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. View quote
Sebastian Junger
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. View quote
Alan Rudolph
Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it. View quote
Alan Vega
There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid. View quote
Ali Farahnakian
Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality. (Allen Boyd)
A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities. View quote
Anant Agarwal
It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself. View quote
Andrew Shue
The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions. View quote
Ann McLane Kuster
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations. View quote
Anna Garlin Spencer
To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries. View quote
Anna Lindh
Ninety-seven is my lucky number. View quote
Antonia Fraser
Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change. View quote
Ari Graynor
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives. View quote
Armistead Maupin
Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will. View quote
Arnold Rothstein
The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy. (Austin Peck)
We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops. View quote
Adam Schiff
Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too. View quote
Al Kaline
It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl. View quote
Al Michaels
I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one. View quote
Alain Prost