Build Numbers Starting

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

    “That’s a sucker game, Doc. There’s probably fifty fellows around town just waitin’ to see you get liquored up, so they can fill ya full of holes. Build themselves up a great reputation—the man that killed Doc Holliday.”
    —Samuel G. Engel (1904–1984)

    “I’m not even thinking straight any more. Numbers buzz in my head like wasps.”
    —Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)

    “I feel the carousel starting slowly
    And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,
    Photographs of friends, the window and the trees
    Merging in one neutral band that surrounds
    Me on all sides, everywhere I look.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)