#numbers

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#coming #down #fuel #going #good

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#men #numbers #perfect #rare #very

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#before #big #dance #entire #films

Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires. ↗

— Michael Grant

#fear #gone #math #michael-grant #numbers

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#numbers #age

Don't you know anything at all about numbers?" "Well, I don't think they're very important," snapped Milo, too embarrassed to admit the truth. "NOT IMPORTANT!" roared the Dodecahedron, turning red with fury. "Could you have tea for two without the two — or three blind mice without the three? Would there be four corners of the earth if there weren't a four? And how would you sail the seven seas without a seven?" "All I meant was—" began Milo, but the Dodecahedron, overcome with emotion and shouting furiously, carried right on. "If you had high hopes, how would you know how high they were? And did you know that narrow escapes come in all different widths? Would you travel the whole wide world without ever knowing how wide it was? And how could you do anything at long last," he concluded, waving his arms over his head, "without knowing how long the last was? Why, numbers are the most beautiful and valuable things in the world. Just follow me and I'll show you." He turned on his heel and stalked off into the cave. ↗

— Norton Juster

#beauty

I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either. ↗

— R.J. Anderson

#numbers #humor

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#benefit #both #exercise #free #free speech

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

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#bacteria #being #billions #both #die