#counting

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#comedy #decided #give #going #half

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#counting-sheep #humour #boredom

It happened so long ago I can't even be sure it happened as I say it did. Stories change in the telling, memory makes up as much as it knows. We were very small. The things we saw were all mixed up with the things we dreamed and the things we were scared of. ↗

— David Almond

#david-almond #change

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair. ↗

— Zalmay Khalilzad

#counting #election #fair #free #important

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#activities #banking #cards #collar #crime

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#counting #go #i #money #stupid

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

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#because #between #conceivably #counting #discontinuity

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos