Build Numbers Starting

Famous quotes containing the words build, numbers and/or starting:

    “But we must build our walls, for what we are
    Necessitates it, and we must construct
    The ship to navigate behind them, there.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “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)

    “what most appals
    Is that tiny first shiver,
    That stumble, whereby
    We know beyond doubt
    They have almost run out
    And are starting to die.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)