#numb

...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb. ↗

— Mignon Fogarty

#numbers #passive-voice #writing #humor

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#patrick-rothfuss #words #love

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #mathematics #numbers

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? ↗

— James Thurber

#answer #called #did #i #number

Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#attention #been #devoted #effort #experimental

Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title. ↗

— Anwar Robinson

#lot #lucky #number #place #plan

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. ↗

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

#mathematicians #mathematics #nullity #numbers #zero

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. ↗

— Murray Rothbard

#comes #dominion #economy #into #number

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#community #dealing #fiction #gay #gay community

I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#arm #counted #each #fallen #full