Thousand Quotes

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 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.

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

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.