Top 454 Number Quotes

I didn’t want to do ‘Fashion Police’ because I thought, ‘This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?’ It has taken off. We are the number one show in England on E! Who knew?
Joan Rivers
Rest is the best thing for your body rather than working out or dieting. Sleep can change your whole metabolism, so it’s my number one priority when it comes to looking good.
Erin Heatherton
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.
Stephen Hawking
That’s where I got my start and where I’ll continue to work, but I can’t tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn’t choose me.
Kelly Lynch
Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.
Michael Arlen
The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.
Said Nursi
In 1983 I’d had a number one. I’d sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.
Bonnie Tyler
I still think what the consumers are looking for is, number one, entertainment. They want to be entertained. It can be a liberal, a libertarian, or a conservative. It can be far-left or far-right. If they are entertained, they are going to tune in.
Neal Boortz
What I love is to win. What I love is being number one.
Bernard Arnault
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
Paul Auster
Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player’s uniform. It’s the brain’s natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.
Jacqueline Leo
I enjoy roles that involve a task outside of my natural capabilities – for example, playing a number of musical instruments or sword fighting or cutting a suit. You have to look as though you can do it, without too much editing.
Geoffrey Rush
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
George Boole
I am one of seven kids, number five of seven, and the first of my siblings to graduate from high school and the first to graduate from college.
Andrew Gillum
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle
We can learn from IBM’s successful history that you don’t have to have the best product to become number one. You don’t even have to have a good product.
Adam Osborne
In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
Carey Williams
There have been number of films that have been made with Mumbai as a backdrop or a character. ‘Company,’ ‘Life In A Metro,’ ‘Ek Chalis Ki Last Local’ – they all have presented Mumbai in a different manner.
Chunky Pandey
Company culture is my number one priority. It’s more important than the team, the product, the business model, or the investors. All of those things can be fixed and made better over time. But culture has to be established on Day 1.
Eric Yuan
I think there’s an infinite number of cool technology sports that should exist that don’t.
Saul Griffith
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw
I’ve had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she’s hilarious.
Johnny Depp
Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it’s about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.
Li Keqiang
The number of medals on an officer’s breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
Charles Edward Montague
Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
Viktor Orban
People who know there is a god and people who know there isn’t live in exactly the same world. Same number of hours in the day, same weather, same football results. They both love their children and die of the same diseases.
A. A. Gill
On the basis of research in several disciplines, including the study of how human capacities are represented in the brain, I developed the idea that each of us has a number of relatively independent mental faculties, which can be termed our ‘multiple intelligences.’
Howard Gardner
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
To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.
Henry Rollins
We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.
Zach Wamp
He exists and we have four people who identified him an

He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed.
William Pepper
For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
Michael Shermer
Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.
Clifford Geertz
As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.
LZ Granderson
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
Harold MacMillan
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
Thomas Frank
When we meet, I’m interested and I’m curious about what he’s doing because he’s burning a number from a client. And I’m like, ‘Who is this?’ and my girlfriend’s like, ‘That’s a drug dealer. Stay away from him.’
Rosario Dawson
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I’ve had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.
Johnny Depp
Being number two sucks.
Andre Agassi
The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that’s when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.
Michelle Williams
So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.
Dennis Bergkamp
Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.
Al Kaline
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
Evander Holyfield
If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I’d say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.
Ron Fairly
Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital.
Marsha Blackburn
Quarks came in a number of varieties – in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks – they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.
Richard P. Feynman
The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we’re able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide.
Andrew Mason
We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. ‘Private Edwards, E.’, a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping… If war was a game of cards, I’d say someone was cheating.
Spike Milligan
Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret – if there is one being kept – will be revealed.
Dwight Schultz
So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Barry McCaffrey
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding
I’m playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn’t say that. I’m number two.
Vijay Singh
Our goal is not to be number one. Our aim is to be the only one.
Suzuka Nakamoto