Number Quotes - page 4

It has been estimated that about one-fifth of Nazi voters and members were drawn from the manual work-force. After 1933 the number of workers in the Nazi Party went up, a product of opportunism perhaps as much as conviction. (Richard Overy)
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included. View quote
Ken Hensley
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. View quote
Louis L'Amour
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. View quote
Karl Abraham
Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who receive some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it. [citation needed]. View quote
Jack Kemp
However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas. View quote
Alex Campbell
People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward. (Bob Balaban)
My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process. View quote
Brent Scowcroft
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views. View quote
Greg Ginn
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades. View quote
Gary Miller
Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office. View quote
Geena Davis
Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me. View quote
Kelly Lynch
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. View quote
Margaret Spellings
I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends. View quote
Mary MacLane
My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way. (Paul Lynde)
I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job. View quote
Robert Scheer
I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. View quote
Robert Wyatt
I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination. View quote
Ric Keller
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. View quote
Sam Mendes