#numbers

You'll get used to it. In the end you won't even notice it anymore," he said. "How is that possible? It will always be there, right before my eyes." "Exactly," said Mattia. "Which is precisely why you won't see it anymore. ↗

— Paolo Giordano

#the-solitute-of-prime-numbers #solitude

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed. ↗

— Joe Biden

#elected #financial #financial assistance #framed #going

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. ↗

— David Bowie

#am #amount #backing #everybody #extraordinary

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar. ↗

— Xun Zi

#aware #bravery #death #dog #drink

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#biologist #could #i #if i could #intelligence

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#books #buy #i #large #large numbers

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#france #nation #numbers #only #patrons

A few honest men are better than numbers. ↗