Thousand Quotes
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You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.
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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!
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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.
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.
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Being a bad writer a thousand times first.
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You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.
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A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.
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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.
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I need ten thousand angels to walk me out the door.
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A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.
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There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
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The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
