Number Quotes

If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.

Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

Fools are without number.

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism.

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.