Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him...

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.