#numb

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined. ↗

— Brian Baird

#annual #balance #budget #combined #contradictory

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum. ↗

— Anita Baker

#complex #i #just #keep #life

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#addict #am #before #call #cell

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#divorce #eyes #failure #hate #i

When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating. ↗

— David Baltimore

#body #cancer #cells #continually #cured

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways. ↗

— Travis Barker

#been #changed #eye #got #hospital

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people. ↗

— Todd Barry

#certain #certain extent #comedy #extent #i

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all. ↗

— Mario Batali

#best #city #food #italy #least

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

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