Thousand Quotes

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

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

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

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

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.

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