Quotes of: Greatest-number Keyword

He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend.

I Am Number Four

Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face.

The Number of Missing

The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark... To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the number of the luminous, there is the aim.

Les Misérables

Am I really standing here, conversing with a bloody unicorn?" Tiffy was certain her mind had finally left the building.

Lucky Number Six

You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

Summer and Smoke

I'm not famous, but some people know me by name. Other people know me by number. That number is four.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I know the secret number of the universe. It’s one, for the individual in search of the secret number. But the secret itself is love, and lies outside of one.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned.

The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

P. J. O'Rourke

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Tom Seaver

Let the cats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of mousetraps! Let the rats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of dogs!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Moore

So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

James Levine

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

Jack Bowman

I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.

Jim Cramer

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

Zig Ziglar

As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.

Brett Favre

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social...

Hjalmar Schacht

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

Howard Schultz