The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
Lt. Escobar: [pointing to a graffito on the wall] Isn't that your phone number? Jake Gittes: Is it? I forget. I don't call myself that often.
Captain Renault: Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects.
Rufus T. Firefly: Chicolini, give me a number from one to ten. Chicolini: Eleven. Rufus T. Firefly: Right!
[an ARVN pimp and his hooker drive towards the Marines] ARVN pimp: Do you want number one fuckee?
Will: Do you like apples? Clark: Yeah. Will: Well, I got her number. How do you like them apples?
Randall: I'm in the zone today, Sullivan. I'm gonna do some serious scaring, putting up some big numbers.
Lenny Meyer: The Torah is just a long string of numbers. Some say that it's a code sent to us from God.
Bodyguard: Did ya get the license number? Rocky: Of what? Bodyguard: The truck that run over your face.
Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.
Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don't know.
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.
Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train for a certain number of days in the summer. Most of my peers ski between 40 to 60 days. I ski about 55 days.
