Thousand Quotes

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2,000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1,000, and sell a thousand of them.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

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

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Well, I don't like yoga. I've got a thousand things to do.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

I write a thousand words a day.

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

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

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.