“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.” PeopleMenTryingHas BeensStoriesPoliticalNumbersEventsCircumstancesTerribleOrdinaryUniversalCaughtThemeMidstCaught UpOrdinary PeopleSierraSierra Leone Author:Edward Zwick
“The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.” SometimesChoicesProcessRoomsNumbersAudienceStageFrontsEventsDeterminedExperimentsRehearsalChoices You Make Author:Ben Kingsley
“Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event.” IfsWayBelieveLooksNumbersEventsNewsOkayChosenRationalEveningReportsAccurateProbabilityLotteryImprobableImprobability Author:William Lane Craig
“The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.” ThinkingWayFirstsWellsMayLongBookStoriesReadingLiteratureNamesLanguageHoursNumbersCompanyNovelWrittenWorstEventsComplexesInternationalDetailsLondonNarrativeCodeProseDescriptionDefiniteLong WaySan FranciscoDescribingCurriculumStylistJournalisticRenownedDa Vinci Code Author:Geoffrey K. Pullum
“When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.” ArtWishNumbersEmotionEventsPainter Book:Pensées of Joubert Source: Pensées of Joubert
“The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.” RealizingNumbersRiskEventsHigherLowsImpactCardsBoardsProbability Author:Patrick Dixon
“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.” IfsPersonsNumbersMagicEventsMilestone Author:Sandra Bullock
“I just kind of dive in if I think I can create something that will make a difference and then try to get the numbers to stack up after the event. So most of the things I've done I would not have done if I'd have asked the accountants to look at them before.” IfsThinkingTryingLooksKindI CanDoneDifferencesNumbersEventsMaking A DifferenceAccountants Author:Richard Branson
“My greatest influences in my sport have been two former number one English lady darts players, Deta Hedman and Mandy Solomons. Deta helped me at international events and both helped me to cope with the big occasion which gave me the confidence I needed to become a champion.” Has BeensTwoBigsSportsNumbersPlayerInfluenceEventsNeededInternationalFormerOccasionsChampionSolomonDarts Author:Trina Gulliver
“After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.” PeopleYearsKindMovingOrderCoursesLevelsNumbersMillionsWrittenMediaEventsDiseaseNewsFairsSpreadDramaticRelatedBombsMassiveSteadyAvoidedFamineMalnutritionAttrition Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime.” PeopleFirstsPersonsMadeKidsYoungSoundCan DoBornNumbersEventsMoonLifetimeRateSpeedFasterFirst PersonLandingMoon LandingPropulsion Author:Felix Baumgartner
“Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.” YearsArtWarCharacterNumbersNovelEventsHundredBaseballWorks Of ArtOngoingImprobableFolkloreAnecdotes Book:The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game Source: The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game
“Movember is an event that I've supported for a number of years. I haven't grown a moustache myself before, but I've always donated to others. I think that raising awareness for men's health is really important. You see a lot of initiatives - very public initiatives - around women's health, like breast cancer awareness and the like, but men's health issues tend to go more unnoticed. I think this is a great cause and I'm proud to support it.” ThinkingMenYearsImportantCausesNumbersSupportIssuesAwarenessEventsHavensProudCancerBreastsInitiativeBreast CancerUnnoticedMoustacheHealth IssuesWomen's HealthRaising AwarenessCancer Awareness Author:James Magnussen
“So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.” YearsFallNextChallengesWealthNumbersEventsClimateClimate ChangeAverageStormViolentWeatherAlsDeclineFloodHurricanesGoreAnnualsTornadoes Author:Donald J. Boudreaux
“I've done a number of studies with speed dating and Match.com and what's interesting is that you know we still walk into a speed dating event, you know, thinking about what it is we're looking for in a mate and so you ask people, like women will say "I'm looking for somebody who is really kind and sincere and smart and funny."” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindStillsDoneAsksWalksInterestingNumbersStudyEventsSmartDatingSpeedSincereMatesSmart And Funny Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!” WellsStillsMovingUsedTurnsStuffNumbersHalfCompanyEventsBuildingPleaseProjectsMovedBlockUsed To BeQuartersHeroicBellsTelephonesBricksOperatorsHeadquarters Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“With the passion and the vision of the Berners [Sanders] coming into the Greens - we call it berning green - and the events that I'm going to that are being created around the country right now, it's the Bernie folks who are showing up in huge numbers along with the traditional Green. It's very powerful.” CountryPassionPowerfulNumbersVisionEventsHugeRight NowGreenFolksTraditionalVery PowerfulShowing UpHuge Numbers Author:Jill Stein
“I did a Moonlighting episode because I was friends with Whoopi [Goldberg, who guest-starred in the same episode], and she asked me to do it and I did it. But yeah, that was my first regular on a series, and it's because I'd met Brooke Shields a number of years earlier at a charity event.” YearsFirstsNumbersEventsMetsYeahSeriesCharityGuestsEpisodesShields Author:Judd Nelson