Numerals Quotes

#1. It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

Will Durant

#2. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

Ian Stewart

#3. I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

Bob Hope

#4. Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

Roy H. Williams

#5. A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Rob Pike

#7. Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.

Patricia Marx

#8. Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought us algebra. Also the numbers we use, including a symbol for nothing, which Europeans had never had before. You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent
and he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets.
He has several likenesses, like stars and years, like numerals.

Frank O'Hara

#10. What does it feel like to be latent?
I don't know. What does it feel like to be so old that your birth certificate is in Roman numerals?

Suzanne Wrightt

#11. How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

George Carlin

#12. They quickly discerned the advantages of utilizing columns of numbers or place numbers in the style of Arabic numerals, and they introduced the use of zero, negative numbers, and algebra in China.

Jack Weatherford

#13. She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

Joan Rivers

#14. Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

Henry Spencer

#15. The double 0 numerals signify an agent who has killed and who is privileged to kill on active service.

Ian Fleming

#16. god, love is more strange than numerals more strange than grass on fire more strange than the dead body of a child drowned in the bottom of a tub, we know so little, we know so much, we don't know enough.

Charles Bukowski

#17. The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Evelyn Waugh

#18. Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film.

William Gibson

#19. Beginning Beloved with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.

Toni Morrison

#20. There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.

Mongkut

#21. That which I have seen, in that little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. Would God I had been blind!

Mark Twain

#22. Then she kissed him until the sky seemed to fade out and all her smiles and tears to vanish in an ecstasy of eternal seconds.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#23. All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something ...

Bernard Malamud

#24. Have you not heard? Dark elves are psychopaths.

Anglia Spring

#25. The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

Margaret Atwood

#26. Choose your favorite spade and dig a small, deep hole, located deep in the forest or a desolate area of the desert or tundra. Bury your cell phone and then find a hobby.

Nick Offerman

#27. Sometimes a girl needs to be told what a guy feels, rather than trying to decipher the signs.

Hilary Grossman

#28. Truth is a tangible tool if used daily it could get a lot done.

Marcelle Hinkson

#29. Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

John Chrysostom