Top 74 Count The Number Quotes
#1. The best way to judge the worth of a person's wealth is to count the number of genuine people he has got in his network.
Anuj
#2. Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.
Milton Berle
#3. A flower doesn't count the number of bees that come nor does it pump up its smell just when you walk by. Its nature, as is ours, is to expand itself no matter if anyone ever loves us back.
John Douillard
#4. I can't count the number of times I've been sound asleep, woke up, and I was doing my hair.
Bill Engvall
#5. I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!
Bobby Thomson
#6. Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30 ...
Albina Fabiani
#7. I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.
LaToya Jackson
#8. If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.
Robert Grosseteste
#9. The tree said in its rooted being, All my leaves are seen, but one, this one in the darkness cast by all the others. This one leaf I keep secret to myself. Who will see it in the darkness of my leaves? And who will count the number of them?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#10. Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.
Zubin Mehta
#11. It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
Alan Lightman
#12. There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#13. I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.
Stephen Daldry
#14. Count the number of times you have spoken. And really meant what you have said. Count the number of times you have chosen to keep quiet instead.
Jay Woodman
#15. Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples?
Dottie Walters
#16. 666 Pennsylvania Ave. "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." - Revelation 13:18
Hunter S. Thompson
#17. There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home.
David Rakoff
#18. One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.
Guy Finley
#19. Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.
Lorrie Moore
#20. How many ways have you thought of already?" "Who can count the number of stars in the sky or grains of sand upon the beach? It's futile.
Richelle Mead
#21. I can count the number of great Cabernets I made at Beaulieu only by taking off my socks and shoes, but I can count the number of great Pinot Noirs on one hand with change left over.
Andre Tchelistcheff
#22. I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.
Terry Bradshaw
#23. One of the enduring myths of campaign analysis is that you can actually count the number of 'undecided' voters by asking voters if they are undecided or not. Sometimes, significant numbers of voters actually change their minds.
Jeff Greenfield
#24. Tizzie, count the number of fucks I give on my fingers. Oh, I managed to conjure one just for you.
Kurtis J. Wiebe
#25. I can't count the number of people I've talked to over the course of my career who have said to me that the thing that they most regret is the one time they did something just for the money.
Tavis Smiley
#26. Dad, I can count the number of normal school days I've had this year on one hand.
Rachel Vincent
#27. I couldn't give you a count of the number of single women I have in our congregation that are serving in very significant ways in the community. Our desire is for them to live all of life to the glory of God whether God calls them to be a wife or a mother or not.
Ligon Duncan
#28. On a clear night, look up and count the stars and hold onto that number and know that I love you more. I will always love you.
Rosalind Noonan
#29. I can still count on one hand the number of men I've slept with.
Mariah Carey
#30. The genius' behind the new Rocky movie decided to call it Rocky Balboa so that we'll probably forget that it's number six. Or Rocky Balboa can't count past five.
Doug Benson
#31. You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.
Richard Morris
#32. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.
Psalms 139
#33. I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.
Maya Angelou
#34. People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
Al-Ghazali
#35. As I walked, I started making a list of everyone in the mage world whom I'd opposed, fought with, or otherwise irritated. After I ran out of fingers to count on I decided to limit the number to people I'd pissed off relatively recently.
Benedict Jacka
#36. Schuyler kept count, thinking that maybe once she hit a magical number, it would stop hurting.
Melissa De La Cruz
#37. I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.
Stella Young
#38. She shook her head. "I guess... that begs the question: just how many people have you slept with?"...
"All I can say for sure is the number is more than you can count on your fingers and toes. But less than the population of Miami.
Julie Ann Walker
#39. Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.
Jean De La Bruyere
#40. But I am even more than this. I am all those they remember, the ones they loved, everyone they knew, and everyone they only heard about. How many are contained in me? Count the stars. Go on, number the grains of sand. That's me.
I am humanity.
Rick Yancey
#41. She picked up the phone and dialed Blake's number. His silky hello made her smile.
"You're smiling, right?" His voice was so intimate.
"Of course," she murmured. "Does it still count if you don't see it?"
"It counts when I feel it," he replied.
Debra Anastasia
#42. Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to escape from the blue painted wall.
Jay Woodman
#43. I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.
William Shatner
#44. If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
Seneca The Younger
#45. Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.
Christopher Columbus
#46. I symbolized doping ... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.
Richard Virenque
#47. As a little boy, when I would get angry, my mother would say, "Count to ten." Try as I might, I could not make this advice work for me. By the time I reached the number ten, I was madder than when I started!
David W. Earle
#48. For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).
Douglas Hofstadter
#49. As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is.
Henry Rosovsky
#51. When you're playing supernatural characters, there's an infinite number of possibilities with a character. And I also think they're wonderful and entertaining for the whole family. You don't have a high body count ...
Nicolas Cage
#52. As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.
Hans Jonas
#53. In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to sway opinion count as much as the number of military divisions.
Dominique De Villepin
#54. Count the steps
and keep the number.
Pick the white pebbles
and the funny strange leaves.
Mark the curves
and cliffs around
for you may need
to come home again.
Tenzin Tsundue
#55. I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don't assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don't get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts.
Shahrukh Khan
#56. You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'
Martin McGuinness
#57. I can count off on one hand the number of times I've used testosterone gel - because it doesn't really do much.
Patrik Sinkewitz
#58. When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.
Robert Wagner
#59. I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one ... should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness ... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#60. I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
Kate Reardon
#61. It seems the trees can count! They wait until a certain number of warm days have passed, and only then do they trust that all is well and classify the warm phase as spring. But warm days alone do not mean spring has arrived.
Peter Wohlleben
#62. I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
Danica McKellar
#63. I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write. Augustine/John Calvin
Augustine Of Hippo
#64. And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.
Amiri Baraka
#65. For the first time in years, I have vivid dreams, vivid enough to count the stars and the number of ripples in the sea.
Brittany Weekley
#66. I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.
Chuck Mangione
#67. I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.
John Piper
#68. If, my dear, you seek to slumber;
Count of stars an endless number;
If you will continue wakeful;
Count the drops that make a lakeful;
Then if vigilance yet above you
Hover, Count the times I love you;
And if slumber sill repel you
Count the times I do not tell you.
Franklin P. Adams
#69. I lost count of the number of referees who came to me both at Derby and Forest and said, 'I'd just like to express my thanks. I love matches involving your team. We never have any trouble with them.
Brian Howard Clough
#70. People who don't like you almost never come up to you. That's a lot of years of saying things that I know a lot of people in this country hate me for. And the number of times someone has come up to me and said something negative, I could count on one hand.
Bill Maher
#71. Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.
Suzanne Collins
#72. I still have a lot of military contacts, and friends and readers who've served or are serving, and they react really strongly to G.I. Joe. I've lost count of the number who've said, 'Oh, I just loved it as a kid. I had all the figures; it really made me think.'
Karen Traviss
#73. Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don't count - there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book,
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#74. In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
Wallace Shawn
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