Thousand Quotes

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

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

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

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

There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

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

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.