Numb3rs quotes

339 total quotes


Charlie Eppes: Numbers don't lie.

Charlie Eppes: Oh boy, that's the fourth security camera we passed since they buzzed us through the gate.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Extremist in Orwellian paranoia as well as stunted religious beliefs.

Charlie Eppes: Please understand, sometimes I can't choose what I work on. I can't follow through on a line of thinking just because I want to, or � or because it's needed. I have to work on what's in my head. And right now, this is what's in my head.

Charlie Eppes: Should I be worried, that a cloning expert is feeding my fish... with spices?
Professor Russell Lazlo: Yeah! I've glazed their food with carotenoid rich paprika. The genetically prone ones are gonna becoma a brilliant red.
Charlie Eppes: If the poor things don't die of indigestion first.

Charlie Eppes: Since when did you become my conscience?
Amita Ramanujan: Around the same time we started making out.

Charlie Eppes: So I am an FBI. You know, I work for the FBI.
Woman: Can't you protect him?
Charlie Eppes: Well, uh, actually, I'm a mathematician.
Season Four

Charlie Eppes: The only keg party I ever threw [in college], he stole the keg.

Charlie Eppes: The two great adult influences in my life are heading off to blow up pumpkins.

Charlie Eppes: There is nothing wrong with my driving.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: So the chorus of car horns that follows in your wake ... what is that? A spontaneous phenomenon?

Charlie Eppes: There's a symmetry to my chaos.

Charlie Eppes: This is one time the haystack is gonna tell us more than the needles.
Larry Fleinhardt: We got thousands of trucks, millions of parcels, this is one large haystack Charlie!

Charlie Eppes: We all use math every day: to predict weather, to tell time, to handle money. Math is more than formulas or equations; it's logic, it's rationality, it's using your mind to solve the biggest mysteries we know.

Charlie Eppes: We're going to need dry-erase boards. Lots of dry-erase boards.

Charlie Eppes: We're gonna need the surveillance footage and some tripods, a laser pointer ... and we're gonna need string.
Don Eppes: String?
Charlie Eppes: Lots of string.

Charlie Eppes: What do you think we should do now?
Don Eppes: The same thing when I was in school and I didn't know the answer � fake it.