Number Quotes

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

I will do everything I can to bring the Number One to Ferrari. The whole team and all the fans deserve it.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

Valor is superior to number.

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.

One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

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.

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

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.

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.