#numb

Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#achieved #amount #been #brought #childcare

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#because #fail #go #happens #large

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#crowd #intelligence #known #number #people

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you. ↗

— Prince

#computers #digital #fill #gadgets #good

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one. ↗

— Alain Prost

#french #had #i #like #number

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#certain #feel #happy #i #idiot

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#amount #dad #dads #down #good

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion. ↗

— Ben Quayle

#been #discussion #end #filled #fund

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#considerably #encouraged #end #had #increased

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#early #enamored #great #his #honor