Quotes with thousand-a-year

Quotes 401 till 420 of 561.

  • Samuel Johnson The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Blair Underwood The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Beth Henley The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II 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.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • C. S. Forester The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • John Foster Dulles The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • William C. Bryant The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Sarah Bernhardt The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Bobby Scott The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bono The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Adam Savage The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • W. H. Auden The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Charles F. Kettering The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Bruce Vilanch The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • François Fénelon The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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