#numb

We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing. ↗

— Paul Simon

#certain #dialogue #did #done #found

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#claims #hard #numbers #slippery #those

I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#alone #awkward #because #being #else

I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two. ↗

— Vijay Singh

#i #now #number #playing #pretty

The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#america #american #attacks #battalions #began

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. ↗

— Adam Smith

#adventure #approach #certain #certainty #greater

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. ↗

— Adam Smith

#after #changes #detail #doing #facts

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters. ↗

— Delia Smith

#disasters #getting #habit #i #into

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#any #britain #challenge #day #idea

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#bring #cause #children #happy #healthy