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• The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

  Daniel Hannan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exactly, Statistics

• A lot of data, whether it’s imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it’s geographically laid out. I’m talking about imagery, statistics, incidents and other things that happen around the globe.

  Jefferson Han

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Statistics, Incidents

• The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Statistics, Inspiration

• He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts – for support rather than for illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Statistics

• We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.

  Phil Harris

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Statistics, Records

• However, don’t let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas – that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

  Bob Filner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violence, Statistics

• The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we’ve been in an anthropocentric era.

  Story Musgrave

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Statistics

• The statistics show that when you’ve done something for so long, it’ll either be, yeah, you’re slowing down, or someone’s doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it’s mental and spiritual.

  Steven Lopez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Statistics

• The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

  Stanley Smith Stevens

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Statistics, Measure

• I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

  Jennifer Garner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Statistics, Divorce

• He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

  Romano Prodi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Support, Statistics

• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word “census,” and people fall asleep.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Census, Statistics, People

• If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Experiment, Statistics

• I’m not interested in Donnie Edwards’ seven-year tackling statistics. I’m only interested in the type of player he is (currently) and the player he may be in the future.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Future, Sports

  Tags in Statistics, Interested

• Awards mean a lot, but they don’t say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

  Ernie Banks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Statistics, Baseball, Award

• There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Statistics, Lies, Lying

• We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

  Horace

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Statistics, Consume, Born

• In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

  Stephen Leacock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Statistics, Lies, Fall

• Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

  Evan Esar

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Definition, Figures, Producing, Reliable, Statistics, Unreliable, Facts, School

• Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Statistics, Abuse