Thousand Quotes

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

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

I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

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

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

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

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

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

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.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.