Hundred Quotes
I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.
Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.
There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.
I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.
It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.
Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.
I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?
You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence
You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.
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.
We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!
People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.
Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up.
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.
One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.
The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.
A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
It's going to be over fairly soon; it goes by quick. Even if I live till I'm one hundred, it's quick.