A Thousand Quotes

"I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race."

We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago.

If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again.

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night.

She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.

O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.

If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.

I'll see you again in a thousand years.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.

When I do think, ‘Man a f—cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,’ I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster’s never seen me high.

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.

Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn't go to hell--in fact, I couldn't go to hell if I wanted to.

The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men.

If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be grateful? No, no, a thousand times, no!

Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.

One hundred ten thousand ears in this ballpark, and he's got to hit my ear.