Thousand Quotes

The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.

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

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I'm in a confined space with too many people. It's not like I freak out or anything, it's just that I'm far more comfortable in my own company sometimes than being surrounded by one thousand strangers.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

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

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

I write a thousand words a day.

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

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

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.