#counting

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#h #humor

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

#both #charge #counting #electric #great

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your . ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#decimal #just #like #use #you

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#counting #democracy #voting

Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting not to die and not to live. It's wanting to stay with the last breath when the dead and the living are all around you, and touching you, and whispering, It's all right, Mam. Everything's all right. But there's no way of staying with the last breath. You have to die. ↗

— David Almond

#david-almond #death

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them. ↗

— Learned Hand

#ask #better #breaking #counting #dean

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side. ↗

— B. H. Liddell Hart

#dead #drain #fruitful #his #kill

This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and business partners who are counting on me. And I would only want to do another movie if it's as good as this one. ↗

— Claudia Schiffer

#business #business partners #career #change #contracts

The voice sang on, “I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine.” I played it again. I was not fine. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#heartbroken #lyrics #music #love

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#entire #entire life #going #i #life