Darrell Huff Quotes

#1. A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

Darrell Huff

#2. Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and fifty tails.

Darrell Huff

#3. It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

Darrell Huff

#4. I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

Anne Sexton

#5. Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers bring about a suspension of common sense

Darrell Huff

#6. Don't be a novelist
be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

Darrell Huff

#7. You have to be somewhat crazy, if you want to be successful.

Puff Daddy

#8. What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.

Sophocles

#9. A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

Darrell Huff

#10. Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.

Darrell Huff

#11. On this planet are every kind of deadly animal from across the stars. The only people that come here are hunters looking for the most dangerous of trophies. No rescue. You either get your prize or you die.

RoChe Montoya

#12. If someone has a foot fetish, I'd have an in.

Torrie Wilson