Numbers Quotes - Page 29

• I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of friends in the last few years. I don't mean that I've fallen out with them, in any dramatic way. We've just decided not to stay in touch. And that's what it's been: a decision, a conscious decision, because it's not difficult to stay in touch with people nowadays, there are so many different ways of doing it. But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, "What's the point?" And then you stop.

  Jonathan Coe

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  Jonathan Coe (2011). “The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim”, p.11, Vintage

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• Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.

  Candace Bushnell

  Thinking, Guy, Three

  Candace Bushnell (2014). “The Carrie Diaries Complete Collection: The Carrie Diaries, Summer and the City”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• The first pair Opal and Amber are, Agate sings in B flat, the wolf avatar, A duet-solutio! - with Aquamarine. Mighty Emerald next, with the lovely Citrine. Number Eight is digestio, her stand is Jade fine. E major's the key of the Black Tourmaline, Sapphire sings in F major, and bright is her sheen. Then almost at once comes Diamond alone, Whose sign of the lion as Leo is known. Projectio! Time flows on, both present and past. Ruby red is the first and is also the last.

  Kerstin Gier

  Past, Keys, Eight

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• Oh dear,"cried Rhonda just then, for Mr. Benedict, awash in strong emotion, has gone to sleep.with a sudden loud snore he toppled forward into the attentive arms of Rhonda and Number Two, who eased him to the floor. "What's wrong with him?" Constance asked. "He has narcolepsy," said Kate. "He steals a lot?" "That's kleptomania," Sticky said. "Mr. Benedict sleeps a lot.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Strong, Sleep, Two

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• I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Evil, Cards

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• You said I was your number-one pick." "And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you.

  Derek Landy

  Heart, Said, Dusk

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• I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organize something that was on the brink of not existing. But we are no longer that country. We are so much more now.

  Kiera Cass

  Country, Assignments, Organize

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• Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.

  Peter Cameron

  Real, Math, Interest

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

  Tennessee Williams

  Thinking, Tablets, Telephones

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• She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.

  Jojo Moyes

  Moving, Loss, Years

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• ...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.

  Erlend Loe

  Stars, Thinking, Differences

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.45, Canongate Books

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• Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

  Patrick Ness

  Recipes, Unending, Slaughter

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• Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.

  Susan Cain

  New Year, Running, Home

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.265, Broadway Books

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• No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

  André Aciman

  Mistake, Self, Forgiving

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• Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her." "Numair," Daine growled. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment? "No. Stepping on my foot won't work either. Do I make myself clear, Prince Kaddar?

  Tamora Pierce

  Powerful, Husband, Eye

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Emperor Mage”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno." "Why Fresno?" "Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, People, Sound

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• They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.

  Samantha Shannon

  Animal, Kind, Branded

  Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.108, A&C Black

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• Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise." Beast: "You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?

  Robin McKinley

  Beautiful, Believe, Night

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• When I meet people, I no longer say "Hi, I'm Derek Landy, pleased to meet you." Now I say "Hi, I'm number one bestselling author Derek Landy. Worship me.

  Derek Landy

  People, Worship

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• The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Real, Repetition, Mere

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.86, Penguin UK

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• You deserved to be loved. And I hope you get to marry for love and not a number.

  Kiera Cass

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.18, HarperCollins

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• As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could they suffer? And yet, somehow, it seemed to take more imagination for humans to identify with animal suffering than it did to conceive of space flight or cloning or nuclear fusion. Yes, she was a fanatic in the eyes of most of the country. . .Mostly, however, she just lacked patience for people who wouldn't accept her belief that humans inflicted needless agony on the animals around them, and they did so in numbers that were absolutely staggering.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Country, Eye, Animal

  FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Nov 15, 2013

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• You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Dream, Life Is Short, Thinking

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• Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Unique, Two

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• I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

  John Green

  Grateful, Water, Forever

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.168, Penguin UK

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