Famous quotes containing the words account and/or numbers:
“Principles aren’t of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they’re attached to dollar signs—unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendents who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)