A Thousand Quotes

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

I’d know you in the dark,” he said. “From a thousand miles away. There’s nothing you could become that I haven’t already fallen in love with.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.

The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.

Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.

Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.

This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.

Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.

Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

One touch is worth ten thousand words.