Quotes of: Number Keyword

Umm, how old are you?” Alexis asked, a little hesitant to answer before making sure he wasn’t a minor. “Twenty-one, but age is just a number,” the guy responded.

The Shoreline

The gentleman had been an uncommonly affable fellow, but every time he counted to twenty (and he seemed to do so with strange frequency), he skipped the number twelve.

The Sum of All Kisses

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

My Sister's Keeper

The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.

Minor Snobs

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

Mud, Sweat and Tears

There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

Nightingale's Lament

I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

Numbers... a Gangsta's Child: A Woman's Journey from Rags to Riches

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

Number the Stars

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

The Last Continent

Life. It begins and begins and begins. An infinite number of times. It is all beginnings until the end comes. Sometimes we know it and sometimes we do not, but, at every moment, life begins again.

Life Drawing

There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books.

Linger

Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

Snuff

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

Tahitian Choreographies: Intermediate to Advanced Level Female Instruction

Children. For all of the times that you miss out on things you'd like to do because of them, there are an equal number of excuses they offer to get out of things you'd like to miss.

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you’ll lighten the weight of regret.

Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York

Why didn't I ask him for his number, address, e-mail — anything? Why? Because I'm in a sodding war zone, that's why. And I'm a soldier. And this wasn't supposed to happen.

Torn

A triangle has three points, just like the number of horns my ex had (she was 50% more evil than Satan).

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