Quotes of: My-number-one Keyword

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

Bill Ayers

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

Buzz Aldrin

By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

Bonnie Bassler

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

Naveen Jain

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

Ursula Andress

I am an architect of words; there is no limit to the number of 'stories' I can create!

Love

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

William E. Conway, Jr.

There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.

John C. Reilly

I ought to fire one of my two employees into the other one’s asshole.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Ge...

Dinaw Mengestu

In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social conscience which dissuades one from harbouring unprofitable company in life, and I find that my two canons are a great aid and support f...

Albert Jay Nock

I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front, to see my son, and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes. As I...

How Green Was My Valley

I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and pecked out my penis and my huevos and kept pecking until they got to my gut and my eyes and my brain, until I was...

The Last Tortilla: and Other Stories

Slowly, but steadily, my feelings did start to change- feelings about myself as a woman and feelings about what sexuality really is and what it really isn't. I -like most everyone who identified as gay or lesbian -felt very comfortable, very at home ...

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Although drinking to the point of becoming incapacitated is unwise and risky for anyone, the blame for rape must be put on the rapist who preys on a drunk woman, not a drunk woman who becomes prey. If my car is stolen after I’ve parked it with the ...

I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it anot...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Just when it seemed my mother couldn’t bear one more needle, one more insane orange pill, my sister, in silence, stood at the end of the bed and slowly rubbed her feet, which were scratchy with hard, yellow skin, and dirt cramped beneath the broken...

Jason Shinder

There is only one amount of money - just not enough.

All My Friends are Superheroes

Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

The Stars My Destination

My TV’s broken. It’s step one in my goal to read more. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

No one ever said life was fair

Three Weeks With My Brother