#number

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#bigger #bond #books #bought #enormous

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#crew #day #determined #dismayed #leagues

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. ↗

— George Combe

#curious #facts #goodness #illustration #mere

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#calculate #harm #his #importance #man

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years. ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#am #had #i #i am #me

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is. ↗

— Chuck Close

#about #discovered #dots #fewer #give

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#does #increases #number #people #predominance

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#large #large numbers #men #numbers #results

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. ↗

— Bill Gates

#been #broadcast #channels #digital #everybody

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#examples #footnotes #generalize #historian #historians