A Thousand Quotes

The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday

I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will

I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?

...One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.

I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick.

One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves.

When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke.

Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?

A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

She thinks, "Hey, How did I come to this? I dream myself a thousand times around the world, But I can't get out of this place"

Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.

A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

But my apology was a thousand apologies.

When we took over the economy, we were losing 800 thousand jobs a month under the [George W.] Bush administration.

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

Then let amourous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred and a Thousand more

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.

I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night.