Numbers Quotes - Page 28

• I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Looks, Thirty, Flash

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.25, Delacorte Press

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• Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.

  Veronica Roth

  Names, Calling, Four

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• Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over.

  Zadie Smith

  Games, Next Level, Video

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• Girl, you better stop apologizing to me. I’m just glad you’re all right. Now, here is Master Jax’s number. You need to call him. He has gone to your house looking for you. I ain’t never seen the boy all worked up and worried as he was when you didn’t show. Don’t you worry about a thing, and call him, please, before he gets the police searching for you.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Boys, Worry

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

  Peter Høeg

  Expression, Missing, Feelings

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book.” He broke out into that goofy smile. “A nd you say we don’t know each other.

  John Green

  Book, Phones, Goofy

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.29, Penguin

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• You need to look hot now that you've got three guys giving you the eye."" Three?" "Sweet blue-eyed blond trapper... Muscled blond trapper number two, who buys you cards... And that gorgeous, 'Where have you been all my life' dude with the raven-black hair and dark eyes.

  Jana Oliver

  Sweet, Eye, Dark

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• I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?" "And are there?" "Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about

  John Green

  Couple, Years, Names

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, Penguin UK

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• It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Greatness, Doors, Car

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• Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Sight, Doors, Path

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• Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Mind, Age, Behaviour

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• She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said.

  Maureen Johnson

  Wall, Giving, Advice

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.132, Penguin

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• [Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home.

  Kim Harrison

  Encouragement, Home, Thinking

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• As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Years, Names, Lasts

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness.  Then a young woman's voice said, in a passable British accent, "The Little People are easily startled, but they'll soon be back.  And in greater numbers."     I sagged in sudden, exhausted relief.  The bad guys hardly ever quote Star Wars.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, War, Voice

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• A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Spring, Mind, Pay

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• Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Decision, Mind

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  School, Wrong Number, May

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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• Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

  Sidney Sheldon

  Two, People, Firsts

  Sidney Sheldon (2010). “The Other Side of Me”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.

  Ned Vizzini

  Confused, Thinking, Choices

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• You’re joining us for dinner, I hope?” asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. “I guess?” I said. “I have to be home by ten. Also I don’t, um, eat meat?” “No problem. We’ll vegetarianize some,” she said. “Animals are just too cute?” Gus asked. “I want to minimize the number of deaths I am responsible for,” I said. Gus opened his mouth to respond but then stopped himself.

  John Green

  Cute, Mom, Home

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.28, Penguin

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• I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team

  Abbi Glines

  Team, Player

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

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• I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.

  Sylvia Plath

  People, Mad, Gone

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.169, Anchor

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• I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

  Heinrich Heine

  Pride, Rude, Suffering

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• Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, those numbers have flipped: Spending on food has fallen to 9.9 percent, while spending on heath care has climbed to 16 percent of national income. I have to think that by spending a little more on healthier food we could reduce the amount we have to spend on heath care.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Income, Care

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, p.111, Penguin UK

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