Thousand Quotes

Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Barbera shows about a thousand times more than 'Scooby-Doo.'

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.