Top 1200 Imaginary Numbers Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

My numbers are better than Troy Aikman, but he has Super Bowl rings and he's played with Hall of Famers as well.

We all have seen Madhuri Dixit's hit dance numbers and we can't forget the contribution Saroj Khan added to them.

When I first came to Def Jam, in '06, all we ever did was win, put up big numbers.

A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.

I was offered only item numbers and did not want to accept as I had it ticked off my bucket list.

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

There is clearly something right about 7, because other numbers fail to resonate with us in quite the same way.

In whatever guise - our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death - the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom.

No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.

We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.

Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves with certain genres, but the genres to me are made up things, like an imaginary world.

The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

I've never really been a numbers guy... I like to score, for sure... but my main thing is I want to win.

There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist one. Unfortunately, from that it does not follow that there is such a solution. Many philosophers find this an unwelcome message, and as often happens in philosophy, they punish the messenger by ascribing to him an entirely imaginary but untenable position.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

Large numbers have been punished on the basis of a broad and vague definition of terrorism and a worryingly low threshold of evidence.

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.

Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

If the numbers keep mounting, newspapers will eventually have to admit that pool exists and give it some coverage.

I might not be producing that much with the ball in my hands, but my fakes, my jet sweeps, it's doing numbers, and that's the main thing about it.

The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

There's probably nothing quite like crossing the finish line and seeing the clock read numbers that you have never seen before.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.

People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety or need.

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.

I can't say I ever got to the stage of swapping phone numbers with refs, but I don't have a problem with managers and referees communicating.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

That's where I would love to bat, and I have always batted at the top of the order. Numbers one and two are what I am most comfortable in.

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.

If you're on Thursday night at 8:30, because the history of that time slot has been so disastrous, there's a hell of a lot of numbers pressure.