We rest our case on the production numbers. ~By Mel Brooks ~
Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security. ~By J. D. Hayworth ~
Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too. ~By Suzanne Fields ~
We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe. ~By Edwin Powell Hubble ~
We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States. ~By Tom Tancredo ~
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. ~By James Wolfe ~
I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero. ~By Charlie Sheen ~
I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved. ~By Bruce Davison ~
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. ~By Robert Hewison ~
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. ~By Sandy Koufax ~
President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly. ~By Peter Arnett ~
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. ~By George Washington ~
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. ~By James Thurber ~
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra. ~By Howard Keel ~
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is. ~By Ralph A. Cram ~
Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ~By Henry Walter Bates ~
We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers. ~By Dustin Diamond ~
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. ~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar. ~By Xun Zi ~
It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads. ~By Scott McCallum ~
People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds. ~By Rebecca Lobo ~
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. ~By George Washington ~
Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. ~By Thom Mayne ~
You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC. ~By Bill O'Reilly ~
But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older. ~By Shaquille O'Neal ~
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. ~By Francis Hutcheson ~
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. ~By Jesse Ventura ~
I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early. ~By Dontrelle Willis ~
As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow. ~By Allyson Schwartz ~
Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet. ~By Eric S. Raymond ~
In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong. ~By William Collins ~
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason. ~By Barry McGuire ~
We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet. ~By Vinton Cerf ~
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. ~By Gilbert White ~
So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. ~By David Knopfler ~
People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time. ~By Dick Wolf ~
Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue. ~By Julius Rosenberg ~
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ~By Thomas Sowell ~
American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England. ~By John Amery ~
I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it. ~By Marc Jacobs ~
I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13. ~By Helen Reddy ~
I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers. ~By Thomas Perry ~
But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation. ~By John W. Snow ~
This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers. ~By Ruth Ann Minner ~
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. ~By Frank Luntz ~
He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase. ~By Michael Feinstein ~
Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die. ~By Brian Sibley ~
I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must. ~By David Neeleman ~
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~By Voltaire ~
There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity. ~By John Knowles ~
As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole. ~By Lance Secretan ~
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. ~By William Lloyd Garrison ~
Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products. ~By Jay Chiat ~
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ~By Gore Vidal ~
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. ~By John Wayne ~
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. ~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers. ~By Suzy Bogguss ~
When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do. ~By Jonathan Carroll ~
The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs. ~By Erich Leinsdorf ~
The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers. ~By John Lawson ~
I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. ~By Amy Adams ~
I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed. ~By Joe Biden ~
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it. ~By George W. Bush ~
You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys. ~By Billy Koch ~
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. ~By Gustave Courbet ~
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. ~By Abdallah II ~
I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with. ~By Jessie Matthews ~
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers. ~By Humphry Davy ~
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end. ~By Tom Seaver ~
We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race. ~By James P. Hoffa ~
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased. ~By Felix Adler ~
I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim. ~By Wilford Brimley ~
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. ~By Helen Reddy ~
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known. ~By William Falconer ~
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997. ~By Estelle Morris ~
It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down. ~By Jack Johnson ~
If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy. ~By Judd Gregg ~
I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers. ~By George Thorogood ~
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. ~By Sydney Pollack ~
The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many. ~By Patricia Ireland ~
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician. ~By James C. Maxwell ~
Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting. ~By Jack Bowman ~
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. ~By John von Neumann ~
Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers. ~By Michael Dell ~
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. ~By Edward F. Halifax ~
When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results. ~By Calvin Coolidge ~
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. ~By Ted Nelson ~
The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them. ~By Buffalo Bill ~
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. ~By James C. Maxwell ~
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. ~By Seth Godin ~
Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information. ~By Luis Gutierrez ~
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal. ~By Norman Borlaug ~
I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up. ~By Luke Wilson ~
A few honest men are better than numbers. ~By Oliver Cromwell ~
Numbers constitute the only universal language. ~By Nathanael West ~
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally. ~By Steve Forbes ~
You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms. ~By Whitey Herzog ~
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~By Voltaire ~
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. ~By Rene Descartes ~
And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston. ~By Betty Hill ~
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