“I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 - like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck.” BelieveDifferentUsedNumbersStonesLuckAddEightGood LuckUnlucky Author:Emraan Hashmi
“Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.” ThinkingWayStillsShowsLastsBeautifulDeathBlackNumbersHalfWonderfulSorrowQuietStonesHorseDressesGrassMidstFalsehoodSculptureFeathersSpoilCathedralsCredibleEpitaphAmiableVaults Book:Works Source: Works
“I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.” FeelsTwoWantedNumbersTomorrowSingingStonesRollingRolling StonesJagger Author:Jeff Beck
“There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase "I'll give it five!" The Beatles and Stones were so popular when they were on it. One week The Beatles were number one and then the Stones were right on their heels.” GivingShowsStarsNumbersFiveWeekTvsLuckyStonesHeelsTv ShowsLucky Star Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“It was hard not to feel violated [in Stone movie], 'cause I have to go home after walking in these shoes all day. It plays a number on your head. Some days I came home and was really upset; it was hard to see the baby [Jovovich's 2-year-old daughter].” FeelsHardPlayHomeCausesNumbersBabyWalkingStonesShoesUpset Author:Milla Jovovich
“People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.” PeopleCertainNumbersComedyMagicStonesPhonesTreatedStepping StonesPhone Numbers Author:Todd Barry
“Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.” DifferentUseFormScienceAnimalNumbersExistenceSilenceShapesMountainEuropeStonesSpeciesVanityVainCollectionsMidstShellsSheerFossilsNaturalist Author:Carl Linnaeus
“Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of the earth and the whole solar system. But though in the course of ages catastrophes have occurred and may yet occur in the heavens, though ancient systems may be dissolved and new systems evolved out of their ruins, the molecules [i.e. atoms] out of which these systems are built-the foundation stones of the material universe-remain unbroken and unworn. They continue to this day as they were created-perfect in number and measure and weight.” IfsKnowsMayWholeAgeEarthScienceUniverseCoursesHeavenCausesNaturalPerfectNumbersMaterialsBuiltStonesWeightFoundationAncientRuinsDimensionsLengthThis DayAtomsArrangementsCatastropheMoleculesSolar SystemUnbroken Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell