I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

On ‘Sanjay and Craig,’ I’ve had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don’t know any of them that I didn’t learn something from to help make me a better player.

For [Wolfgang] Pauli the central problem of electrodynamics was the field concept and the existence of an elementary charge which is expressible by the fine-structure constant … 1/137. This fundamental pure number had greatly fascinated...

I know if I stopped hosting ‘Wine Library TV,’ we’d probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

It’s a chance to wake up new.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

After 13 years, I couldn’t accept to be number two.

There’s this huge number of desperate people.

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

Mind you, the effectiveness of one hunter’s gun does not determine the number of bush meats the other hunter will kill. You got to be yourself. Be you.

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I’ve had the same...

The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

Tell me about yourself – your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There’s a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

We were sexual targets, marked as eternal sluts for exploring the desires only acceptable in men.

Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could...

Socialism provides safety in numbers. And that’s OK, if you don’t mind trading your name—your identity and individualism—for a number.

When Greed makes to money number one priority, it trust nobody

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn’t work in contemporary storytelling because we don’t live in that world anymore.

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

The first organised opposition by women to women’s suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

People have to be confident about their sites. We’re confident, number one, because under my administration we’re managing our airports better than we’ve ever done before.

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What’s its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones...

My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that’s the one I wore before I got to high school and had to...

Incarceration is the way a woman is expected to date like a soccer goalie, shuffling back and forth to block the balls constantly flying in her direction and shamed the moment she lets one slip...

Eliminating some 3600 post offices – mostly rural – will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Never fear to lose your three square meal per day if that will cause you to be a fan of the truth. Never fear to have a decrease in the number of your friends if...

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

It doesn’t need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.

I think that’s unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a...

I consume an enormous number of books, but they’re always on a particular subject because I’m obsessive.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that’s what I really chased.

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue – 20,500 – and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the...

Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn’t have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril.

Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops...

It wasn’t really a loud-mouthed, hyperactive little pig-tailed blonde that made Carl cringe. It was what I represented. While his upbringing was battered humiliation, I was spoiled, doted on, and spoon-fed by the world. I...

The United States – you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites.

Every Arab ‘republic’ has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein’s Iraq surpassed the Assads’ Syria in number of victims.

As to the number of novels I’ve abandoned… I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that’s a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.