Thousand Quotes
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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
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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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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
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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
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one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
William Wordsworth
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Out of what... a thousand?
Mickey Rivers
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
Virginia Woolf
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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
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No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!
Morris West
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
Wernher von Braun
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A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
Michael Eisner
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Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.
Mike Greenberg
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King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
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When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.
Reggie Jackson
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I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.
Neil Oliver
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Conscience is a thousand swords.
William Shakespeare
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A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.
Wang Wei
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Weight Watchers says nothing tastes better than thin feels. I can think of a thousand things that taste better than thin feels.
Jim Gaffigan
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Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers, And dreams of countless Junes, Return when the lake-wind murmurs Through golden August noons.
William Braithwaite
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It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?
Katherine Rundell
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The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.
Wallace Tripp
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What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!
Geraldine Jewsbury
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The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.
Wumen Huikai
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Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
Kevin Keegan