Lauren Oliver Quotes

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

To measure is to know. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

Whenever you can, count.

The markets do numbers, not nuance.

I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.

The numbers are hard to control.

I always liked numbers.

In 'Saaho,' I play a grey character, someone who is complex from within. Devraj is someone who has grown cold over time, to the extent that people might describe him as someone who has died a hundred times.

They treat you as if you are a different kind of human or life form when you are a celebrity - as if we don't breathe the same air, or we don't bleed the same - and I hate that. I really hate that.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. In all of that, there is no spirituality required. No God and karma is needed for the numbers. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

Numbers are a fearful thing.

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change

There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes.