Long Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or numbers:

“When awful darkness and silence reign
Over the great Gromboolian plain,
Through the long, long wintry nights;—”
—Edward Lear (1812–1888)

“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)