“Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.” WellsCoursesEffortOrdinaryHundredRangeStatisticsSuburbs Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender
“We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.” YearsHumansAgeThreeHuman BeingsExistenceMillionsTaughtThousandSixHundredTwentiesSevenStatisticsTake TimeSeven Years Book:A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas Source: A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas
“Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.” WantLooksArtSchoolAcceptingStudentsHundredUniversityStatisticsApplicationArt School Author:Ai Weiwei
“If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.” IfsLooksMomentsMightFacesLaughingSurvivalPercentHundredRateEnjoyedMeritStatisticsCracksMeaninglessFatalitySaffron Author:Jasper Fforde