Thousand Quotes

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

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.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

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

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

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

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

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.