The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.
I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.
I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.
Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.
I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.
The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes.
'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.
Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.
My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.
There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.
During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future.
