“How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?” WorldYearsHumansDifferentStatesNamesUnitedUnited StatesBloodNew YorkBuildingFitLogicCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningVolumeDifferent PeoplesConsumedPizzaNew York TimesOntology Author:John Allen Paulos
“Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.” FacesDesireNamesFitCreaturesBlameAssumingFaultsLustHidingAttributesBrutesSecond PlaceShroudsLustful Book:Poems ... Source: Poems ...
“I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.” TryingAgeWantedSchoolYoungNamesParentComedyFitLateAccentsYoung AgeTrying To Fit In Author:Nasim Pedrad
“My name, the McGregor name, my family's motto ... means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo] to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ass in July.” IfsWayMeanDifferentNamesBloodKingsFitMy FamilyAssRoyalMottoJulyDifferent TimesHorsebackFavelas Author:Conor McGregor
“The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.” WorldWellsStatesFactsNamesUnitedUnited StatesHonestFitJudgmentDisturbedNeutralityDisinterested Author:Woodrow Wilson
“I think that ties into our name and the meaning behind our name, going Against the Current. We don't really want to fit in to one section. If we're able to be grouped into one category then we've become something that already exists, probably. We want all of those kids that would come out to that pizza shop to come to our show and all of those kids who know us from the radio to come to that show. We have kids that come to our show that have been coming to concerts for years, and ones that it's their first concert and they just wanted to see it. I think that's the best way to do it.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantYearsFirstsHas BeensShowsKidsAbleWantedNamesBehindsFitRadioCurrentsBest WayTiesShopsCategoriesConcertsSectionsPizza Author:Chrissy Costanza
“I often get questioned about how we came up with the name Weebly. We all know that all of the good domain names are already taken, and we had neither the desire nor budget to try and fit our business into a pre-existing word - so we made one up.” KnowsTryingMadeDesireNamesTakenFitBudgetsDomainAlready TakenDomain Names Author:David Rusenko
“John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.” KnowsTryingMindFirstsStillsRememberSpiritualityNamesPowerfulBrainHeardCenturyFitComputerMusicianFirst TimeConcernedPatternsAlbumsSupremeToneDemonMarsMonkeysAssaultGalaxyVery PowerfulLeashesColtraneAlbum CoversGreatest Musician Author:Carlos Santana
“A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.” KnowsMenNeedsDoePurposeNamesFitBiggerMissionsPurpose Of LifeInvitesOrbit Book:Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in which you prepare the vegetable soup is not tinned, the concretion you cook will be highly poisonous! So 'tin' your heart with truth, right conduct, peace and divine love; it will then become a vesssel fit for repeating holy name or symbols, meditation, religious vows, pilgrimage, ritualistic worship and the other dishes that you prepare in it.” IfsHeartMayNamesReligiousMeditationDivineFitHolyWorshipCapableSymbolsCooksVegetablesDishesSoupDivine LoveVesselVowPilgrimagePoisonousTinCopperRight Conduct Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“Sometimes I look at new artists trying to come out or trying to make their name and it's like they're coming into the game blind. They don't really know what the world is going to expect from them and they really trying to get in where they fit in but me I almost got the red carpet.” KnowsWorldTryingLooksSometimesArtistGamesNamesFitRedBlindCarpetRed CarpetNew Artists Author:Rakim
“I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm awful at it), when I decided to play the 'put a pen somewhere on a map with your eyes closed' game with South Africa. About the 5th try was St. Lucia in South Africa, which coincidentally also happens to be an idyllic sub-tropical seaside resort town. The name seemed to fit with the mood of the music, and so after a while it just stuck.” GivingTryingPlayHappensEyeGamesNamesFitGiving UpProjectsDecidedTownsSouthStuckMoodAwfulMapsPensSouth AfricaFrustratedResortsTropicalIdyllic Author:St. Lucia
“One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'” WantNeedsMayPersonsCountryStatesNamesChurchCitiesSecurityAdventureFitHealthyDiversitySlaverySizeDeterminedLeisureOne Size Fits All Author:David Mamet
“I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.” TryingRealReasonKidsNamesFitBeatsHarderCirclesTargetSquaresAwkward Author:Sarah McLachlan
“I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?” TwoSongFatherNamesTalkingNiceFitConversationScientistCharmAtomsSplitsSmallestParticlesNice ThingsStrangenessHydrogenHydrogen Atom Author:Florence Welch