Quotes having the keyword Number
Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.
by Isaac Mayer Wise (Clergyman, American , born in 1819) keywords: contains, entire, europe, fourth, half, inhabitants, israelites, number , russia Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.
by Girma Woldegiorgis (Statesman, Ethiopian , born in 1924) keywords: able, been, country, daughters, encouraging, engaged, heroic, nation-building, number, paid, process, sacrifices, score, sons, thanks, victories , which I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: air, announced, call, dreaded, every, go, gone, great, into, know, lives, looking, night, number, phone, post, reporter, return, source, talking, telephone, thing, things , washington I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: been, conspiracies, described, leaked, magnitude, never, none, number, out, suspect, sweep, watergate , were The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: activities, bound, come, enemies, even, get, government, illegal, large, lead, nixon, number, others, out, power, scores, settle, too, use, were , willing We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.
by John Woolman (Clergyman, American , born in 1720) keywords: chiefly, could, indians, lodged, meet, mile, number, out, place, sought, twenty, visited, were , where In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
by Orville Wright (Inventor, American , born in 1871) keywords: absorbed, case, crushing, experiences, experiments, gliding, had, kind, landed, landing, motor, number, our, shock, uneasy, upon, were, which , wing In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
by Steven Wright (Comedian, American , born in 1955) keywords: argument, considered, got, into, long, man, number, odd, over, roulette, vegas , wheel Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.
by Wilhelm Wundt (Psychologist, German , born in 1832) keywords: actions, bodily, character, conscious, having, large, movements, nervous, now, number, our, possess, source, system, their , very I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
by Robert Wyatt (Musician, English , born in 1945) keywords: amazing, appropriate, down, how, just, know, many, need, number, paper, pencil, piece, pin, quite, really, second, sequence, those , thoughts There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
by Robert Wyatt (Musician, English , born in 1945) keywords: charles, enjoyed, jazz, made, music, nina, number, onward, ray, singers, thing , youth The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
by Jon Wynne-Tysonkeywords: banks, determined, effectiveness, facts, memory, number, our, reject, take, total , wish 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.
by John Yoo (Educator, American , born in 1967) keywords: any, benefits, cannot, convention, cooperating, example, geneva, name, number, only, pow, provide, rank, receive, required, serial , under 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.
by Robin Yount (Athlete, American , born in 1955) keywords: any, better, coaches, dozens, help, know, learn, make, managers, number, over, played, player, something, them , years As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
by Cao Yu (Playwright, Chinese , born in 1910) keywords: decreasing, difficult, digest, ideas, literature, number, read, readers, society, through , will We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.
by Niklas Zennstrom (Scientist, Swedish , born in 1966) keywords: around, compare, just, network, number, skype, started, starting, still, telephone, using , world There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.
by Edward Zwick (Director, American , born in 1952) keywords: any, apply, been, beyond, caught, circumstances, control, could, events, family, his, leone, limited, man, midst, most, number, ordinary, places, political, save, sierra, something, story, terrible, their, theme, trying, universal, up , where
