A Thousand Quotes

Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.

No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending will be already.

A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.

From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.

You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'

The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.

Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another.

Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers [as many South Korean poets do] might not be a real, authentic poet.

My drug of choice is beer. It's not only socially accepted, you can't even watch a football game without having it shoved in your face a thousand times.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.

I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help.

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.

A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.

I feel like I’m finally whole. I’m five thousand years old,” he rasped. “But the day you found me in the woods, that’s when my life started.

Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me.

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

I write a thousand words a day.

In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)