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But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine. — Hilary Kornblith

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings. — Edith Wharton

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. — Stephen Ambrose

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number. — P.G. Wodehouse

An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city. — Jan Gehl

There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage. — Douglas Leone

If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes. — Dave Barry

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. — Cynthia Ozick

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who have gone on to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life. — Mark Twain

Never too late. Shooting is prayer. And when civilisation shuts up shop, a gun'll be worth any number of university degrees. — David Mitchell

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them. — Grover Norquist

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. — Quinlan Terry

Yes, God knew the number of a man's days. But sometimes that number was small because the enemy had cut it short. — Karen Kingsbury

If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents. — John Henry Holland

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

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price. — Robert Kennedy

The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right. — Bill Goldberg

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company. — Jack Kilby

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by. — Thomas Carlyle

The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works. — Jack Abramoff

Jed! I got stuck in some air pocket with more exits than ... " I couldn't think of anything famous with a large number of exits "I nearly drowned! — Alex Garland

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. — David Letterman

Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them? — Vincent De Paul

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. — Raoul Vaneigem

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number. — Jane Austen

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way. — Grant Morrison

We must re-imagine liberty in every generation, especially since a certain number of people are always afraid of it. — Arthur Miller

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year. — Jan C. Ting

I knew that Gisela had no money, and many responsibilities, and that she faced a massive number of unknown but looming challenges. — Piper Kerman

I did sound for a number of years, so I know the pain of the sound mixer on a set where everybody was talking. — Emmanuel Lubezki

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft

You are employed by a suspicious number of douchebags! — Leonard Richardson

In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket ... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow — Neal Shusterman

For a couple of days he was nice and I was on cloud number 9,damn they don't teach how to come down from there instead leave us to gravity. — Pushpa Rana

One gene may be regarded as a unit that survives through a large number of successive individual bodies. — Richard Dawkins

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening. — Dean Cain

a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants. — BOB

A hero is not measured by the lives that he has saved. A hero is measured by the number of the dead that he did not join. — Robert J.A. Gilbert

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. — Max Baucus

The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it. — Albert Einstein

They lived in their flat with a number of aging Highland terriers who had names like Hamish and Andrew and Jock. — Neil Gaiman

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street. — Neil Armstrong

Most of the time, all the separates a class president and a gang leader is numbers: a zip code, a paycheck, or a drug dealer's phone number. — Thomm Quackenbush

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats. — Cameron Sinclair

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis. — Frederick Lenz

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation. — Samuel Smiles

In the beginning was the word, but it wasn't a fixed number of bits. — Bob Barton

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community. — George Q. Cannon

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce. — Grace Paley

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. — Robert Louis Stevenson

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, — Seneca.

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members. — Robert A. Heinlein

Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting. — Caity Lotz

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool. — Bill Maher

Decisiveness is the number one quality of a dynamic leader; his ability to communicate a decision with passion and integrity is an art form. — Farshad Asl

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. — Karl Abraham

The number of vacations me and my husband have canceled ... if you really want a job, book a non-refundable vacation. But obviously we're blessed too. — Melissa Rosenberg

What threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things. — Paul Simon

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits. — Jay McInerney

It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time. — Asa Don Brown

You might be a redneck if you can tell your age by the number of rings in the bathtub. — Jeff Foxworthy

Doing a huge number of things doesn't mean you're getting anything meaningful done. — Leo Babauta

Age is a number to keep track of how many years you've been on the planet, not a tool to judge people by. — David A. Santos

When you get a black belt, it's not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them. — Caio Terra

Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really. — Lydia Davis

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.' — Gabrielle Union

I win virtually every case I should win, and I win a number of cases that people think I shouldn't. — David Boies

My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men. — Denene Millner

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers. — Kerry Bishe

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth! — Ambrose Bierce

Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them. — Warren Buffett

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending. — Amy Klobuchar

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. — Jean De La Fontaine

I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots. — Gavin Hood

In a case such as this, unless an entire army is available, the safest number of men will be one. We have no army, and therefore I will go. — Nicole Sager

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present. — Lane Kirkland

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. — Robbie Robertson

Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays. — Tom Stoppard

They'd branded me like some kind of animal.
Lower than an animal.
A number. — Samantha Shannon

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. — John Philip Sousa

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary. — Paul Valery

After four movies, three concerts, and two-and-a-half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events. — Lorrie Moore

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness. — Alan Cohen

The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine. — Eula Biss

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. — Elie Wiesel

I know a great number of things, though never all at once or for very long. — Thomm Quackenbush

...but destiny had a number of tricks up her sleeve, didn't she, both joyful and tragic? — Heather Barbieri

Staring into the ring of candles - proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake — Margaret Peterson Haddix

I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly. — Frederick Lenz

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. — Graham Greene

As far as I can tell, the biggest side effect of a gluten sensitivity is that you actually become the number one symptom: a huge pain in the ass. — Celia Rivenbark

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own. — Saul Leiter

[ ... ] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit. — Robert Musil

He shot me." It just came out, a new number one on the list of the dumbest things he'd ever said. — James Dashner

The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes. — Seth Shostak

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

I wanted to do a book on donuts...Maybe this dream will be book number three, after the Fault in Our Starburst: a Brief History of the Yellow Ones. — Sammy Rhodes

Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed. — Brian W. Fitzpatrick