Numerousness Quotes

#1. In 2013 there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to poetry, the numerousness is astonishing. In April 1948, there were 15 readings in the United States, 12 by Robert Frost. So I claim. The figures are imaginary, but you get the point.

Donald Hall

#2. I'm growing fatter," said Mary,

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#3. When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

Charles De Lint

#4. From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.

Louis Kronenberger

#5. I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

Abraham Clark

#7. Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.

Zach Johnson

#8. We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

Barack Obama

#9. When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose.

Maureen Dowd

#10. The difference between a "problem" and a "mystery" is that we may be able to "solve" a problem, but a mystery is something we have to live with.

Harvey Cox

#11. The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

Joseph Fourier

#12. In a word, many flattering things were said of them. But there was some criticism. People spoke with horror of the number of books they had read.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. Richard Grieco once asked for a bunch of M&M's

Bill Hader