His Number 1 Quotes

He opened his coat to reveal his badge, but I confess I didn't peer closely enough to commit the number to memory. This — Sue Grafton

Four! I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. - Tris. — Veronica Roth

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. — Gustave Flaubert

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible! — Richard Grant

I got a picture [tattoo] of Mohammed Ali on my side with one of his quotes. That's my guy. I look up to him. I'm like his number one fan. — Carmelo Anthony

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. — George Bernard Shaw

A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession. — Henning Mankell

An alien had given her his phone number and asked her to wait. It was almost like dating again. — Nancy Kress

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems. — Vivian Vande Velde

I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart. — Frank Keating

You can tell how poor someone feels by the number of times he references "money" in his conversation. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number. — Abu Bakar Bashir

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S. — Noam Chomsky

They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. — William Golding

Jessi: This is Jesus this is my new number Jessi: Jessi Me: I was shocked that Jesus felt like I was a close enough friend to give me his number... — Scotty Roberts

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives. — Jean Kerr

Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age. — N.D. Wilson

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him. — Woodrow Wilson

The number of the devil is not 666.
That is only his area code, his number is unlisted. — David Javerbaum

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States. — Morley Safer

His heart woke him up to remind him that in life there was never a limitless number of nights. The — Ann Patchett

After all, you're his number one fan. — Stephen King

None of his friend's parents were still together, and in every case that seemed like the number one thing that had gone wrong with her friends' lives. — Rainbow Rowell

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number. — Jerry Coleman

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record. — Stan Lee

Judge not a fellow man by the number of noses he has on his face, but by the number of faces he has on his nose. — Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers

There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

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