#numbers

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#because #big #big enough #down #enough

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#calculate #cannot #equation #eve #imaginary

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#blogging #changing #collect #collecting #communicate

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die. ↗

— Brian Sibley

#chronic #deal #die #great #great deal

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#blown #blown away #books #distribution #fears

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#economist #effect #factors #growth #however

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

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#few #how #millions #nameless #numbers

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

#being #believe #governments #greater #kept

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#called #good #invisible #made #name