Thousand Quotes
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I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
Patrick Henry -
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
Thomas A. Edison
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BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand
Alex Blackwell -
Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
William Goldman -
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
William Golding -
I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
Lord Byron -
When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.
Wes Montgomery -
Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.
William Ernest Hocking
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I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.
Richard Adams -
Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.
Wes Montgomery -
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
Ernest Mandel -
The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
Ernest Hemingway -
one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
William Wordsworth
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Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.
Gershon Legman -
A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.
David Bodanis -
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
Ernest Hemingway -
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
Stendhal -
Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
Kevin Keegan -
I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.
Gerard Majella
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You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me.
Katy Evans -
I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.
Neil Oliver -
Conscience is a thousand swords.
William Shakespeare -
Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.
Winsor McCay