I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
Harold MacMillan

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.
Larry King

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
Jack Kilby

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
Anthony Burgess

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Mason Cooley

I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.
Kenneth Lay

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
Ida B. Wells

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
Cynthia Ozick

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
Jack Kilby

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
Dmitri Mendeleev

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.
Rafael Palmeiro

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.
Maurice Strong

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
Venus Williams

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
Melinda Gates

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.
Alain Prost

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.
Michael Nesmith

I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
Robert Scheer

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
Jean Kerr

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.
Bob Woodward