Top 1200 Large Numbers Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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

I mean, I want to play, to be able to put up numbers to help my team win. Whatever I've got to do to do that, I'm cool with it.

The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.

I just keep thinking about putting up good numbers, playing hard and winning games.

Conor changed the game and he paved the way. He did those big numbers and I'm one of the guys who is going to carry that forward.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

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

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

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

It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

As nines in our system, we need to make sure that we come off the line and that we have numbers correct on both sides.

I took pride in knowing, 'Hey, my numbers may be down, but football guys know I'm playing at a high level.'

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.

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

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.

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

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.

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

In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.

I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.

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

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

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

That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.

Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.

The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting drama - civil wars and assassinations and revolts and bits breaking off and being forced back in ... But I didn't want my future - however fanciful it was - to be entirely European. The Radchaai aren't meant to be Romans in Space.

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.

Sometimes, you have a hunch and then you find numbers that substantiate that, it makes either the staff or the players say, 'OK, let's fix that.'

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

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.

The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound.

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.

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

Records and numbers are important, but there's nothing better than a lot of people being happy through our music.

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

One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop being large, desolate landscapes once they have people in them. They define what the eye sees. And the human eye is almost always directed at other humans. In this way an illusion is created that humans are more important than those things on earth which are not human. It's a sick illusion.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.

I'm brilliant at working out numbers up to 180 but if you ask me to split a restaurant bill I'm rubbish.

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

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

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.

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

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

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.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

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.

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

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it's with one person or with 20.

It's quite likely that planets and solar systems like ours could be forming in other galaxies in great numbers.