It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.
Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.
To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.
The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.
I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.
We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.
There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.
Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys.
Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.
Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.
If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.
There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
Numbers are the only things you can trust in this life, Kerstin; they will keep you sane.’ Summer Lies Bleeding
If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.
Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it's a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.
The thing about members of your family is that if you met them for the first time at a party, you might not bother to take their phone number, and yet something binds you.