Counting Quotes - Page 2

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

Robin Hayes

Government, Community, Information

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If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

Arundhati Roy

Happy, Dream, Novelists

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Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.

Vinoba Bhave

Action, Ends, Should

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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

Barry Sheene

Men, World, Championship

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You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

Dick Dale

Ddt, Fish Tanks, World

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If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Luigi Pirandello

Reality, Yesterday, History

"Six Characters In Search of an Author".

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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Lying, Reality, Men

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Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

Gray Davis

Lines, Flaws, Plant

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I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

Jonny Greenwood

Thank You, Tunes, Orchestra

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This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

John Spratt

War, Cost, Kingdoms

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Im probably one of the worst people with numbers youve ever met. My brothers always kid that they think Im counting cards in Vegas, but Im just trying to add things up.

Luke Wilson

Brother, Kids, Thinking

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All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

Bill Murray

Dance, Mom, Kids

Bill Murray, George Peper (1999). “Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf”, Doubleday Books

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Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.

Tom Lehrer

Funny, Science, Technology

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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Gertrude Stein

Religion, Literature, This Generation

Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.133, Vintage

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Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

John Kasich

Mean, Negative, Our Society

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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

Carl David Anderson

Numbers, Track, Majority

Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”

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I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Thinking, Iraq, Waiting

"Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

Ron Jaworski

Sports, Player, Challenges

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When I'm worried and I can't sleep,
I count my blessings instead of sheep.
And I fall asleep ...
counting my blessings.

Bing Crosby

Fall, Sleep, Blessing

Song: Count Your Blessings

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Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

Gregory Bateson

Mean, Numbers, Next

"Number is Different from Quantity". CoEvolution Quarterly, www.oikos.org. Spring 1978.

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Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

James Hilton

Thinking, Doe, Cost

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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

William Ralph Inge

Government, Democracy, Vote

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In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

Breyten Breytenbach

Dancing, Enemy, Steps

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Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else.

Woodrow M. Kroll

Christian, Blessing, Littles

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I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.

Robbie Coltraine

Jobs, Best Job, People

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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