A Thousand Quotes

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together. Why did I do it? And would I do it again? It was I, you see, who ended it.

My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better.

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.

The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have there been any polls?

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?

There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.

I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.

If you're lucky enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank account, that should be sufficient for your own personal needs, and anything more than that you've got to put to good use.

... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.

He, who for Love has undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousand-fold than one, Who never loved at all.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time

Love is not a compromise. It's something like the rising of the sun,although you've seen it a thousand times, you can't explain it.

Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once.

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.