Total Number

Famous quotes containing the words total number, total and/or number:

    “The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.”
    —Jon Wynne-Tyson (b. 1924)

    “only total expression

    expresses hiding: I’ll have to say everything
    to take on the roundness and withdrawal of the deep dark:
    less than total is a bucketful of radiant toys.”
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    “In a number of other cultures, fathers are not relegated to babysitter status, nor is their ability to be primary nurturers so readily dismissed.... We have evidence that in our own society men can rear and nurture their children competently and that men’s methods, although different from those of women, are imaginative and constructive.”
    —Kyle D. Pruett (20th century)