Count Quotes - page 27

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts. (John Gunther)
The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels. View quote
John Hersey
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle. View quote
John Ridley
A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life. View quote
Johnny Thunders
I've got eighteen-year-old twins that need to go to college, so there's still a financial issue, but I could retire tomorrow and just count ducks by the side of the lake, and that would be just fine by me. I'm not a high-energy guy. View quote
Jonathan Banks
Who's that? That's the King. Who's he? The Duke. Who's she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm...how about the Peasant? And the name stuck. View quote
Jordan Sonnenblick
John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didn't use it much. He didn't want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider. View quote
Jorge Posada
My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year. View quote
Josh Turner
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are. View quote
Joyce Giraud
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language. View quote
Juan Goytisolo
In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading. (Juan Goytisolo)
It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen. View quote
Julie Walters
Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much. View quote
Kristin Hannah
There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. View quote
Lili Taylor
The overall thinking of the shortstop covers the overall context of the ballgame. You have to know the count they'll hit-and-run on. You're thinking of the speed, not only of the runner at first base, but the runner at the plate. You have to know how fast the pitcher is on a particular day. View quote
Lou Boudreau
But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live. View quote
Louie Giglio
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general. View quote
Leah Ward Sears
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair. View quote
Mariella Frostrup
In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us. View quote
Margaret Heffernan
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight. View quote
Donald G. Mitchell
When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced! (Illinois Jacquet)
There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energy away from me. It was always in the back of my mind that I had to do it, and I couldn't count on anybody. There was no one around to pay for me to get through life. View quote
Joanna Cassidy
The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York. View quote
Kid Nichols
Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers. View quote
Kimberly Quinn
Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world. View quote
Kit Bond