Famous quotes containing the words number, selected and/or numbers:
“That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“The final flat of the hoe’s approval stamp
Is reserved for the bed of a few selected seed.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
Her classics registered a little flat!
I rose, and venomously spat.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)