Famous quotes containing the words pick and/or number:
“It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.”
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
“States strong enough to do good are but few.
Their number would seem limited to three.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)