Quotes with hundred

Quotes 81 till 100 of 150.

  • A. R. Ammons Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Joan Didion Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • George Herbert One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Thomas Paine One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • A. W. Tozer One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Ben E. King One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Burgess Owens One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Andrew Wiles Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Buford Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Barry Cornwall Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Jules Renard Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Camille Paglia The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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