#number

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#actress #audition #countless #education #every

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#any #being #box #ever #fight

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#numbers #regarded #weight

Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#among #apologise #certainly #considerable #considerable number

Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#benefits #crowns #enjoy #entitled #even

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. ↗

— John Pople

#became #cambridge #during #earlier #i

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

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