“They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million.” IfsCountryAsksNumbersMillionsNativeImmigrantsIllegalNative AmericanIllegal Immigrants Author:David Letterman
“We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.” ShouldEarthAsksAnswersNumbersGrowingPlanetsMoonAppealsSiteMarsSomewhere ElseAdvancing Author:Gerard K. O'Neill
“You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.” AsksNumbersScalesHumiliation Author:Mel Gibson
“To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.” IfsMenGivingSoulAsksEnjoyNumbersGrowingPlanetsProveSlaveKillingBoundsNobleAppealsDefeatedRejectedPrivilegedVulgarDestinedBetrayedOur PlanetAllegianceFree ManPretentiousNoisyContainingIsmsPosing Author:Savitri Devi
“I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.” PeopleWantHas BeensAsksFeltNumbersMeditationCome UpUncomfortableRamaAutographs Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a belief in God as a guide. Atheists do not care whether others believe as they do. They do ask, however, for the right to believe as they wish.” PeopleBelieveUseCareAsksBeliefWishNumbersAtheismAtheistGuidesManageDecentLarge NumbersBelief In God Author:Gordon Stein
“Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.” MenAsksNamesNumbersTelephonesGlamour Author:Lilly Dache
“At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.” LoveGivingYearsYoungGirlAsksWomenNumbersCareersPrideLoversComfortSakeHumbleCommandEsteemMaturityThirtyGloriousThirty Years Author:Honore de Balzac
“Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsMayI CanSometimesAsksNumbersBeautyKnow HowTruth IsSentencesMathMathematicalMake SenseAsk MeSpokesDividedDividesInfinityClue Book:Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Source: Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
“In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.” HumansEndsEarthMotivationValuesAsksLossNumbersFictionTalentAdventureHugeSixCommitmentDirectScience FictionBillionsTinyIdeologyHuman LifeThe End Of The DayComparisonRelativeContinuingSurvivingParticipantsRoboticsSpace TravelDispassionateVicariousSpaceflightScience Fiction MovieRelative Value Author:James Van Allen
“I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.” AsksGivenHoursNumbersQualityNovelPagesFetish Author:Jonathan Lethem