Quotes with thousand-a-year

Quotes 421 till 440 of 561.

  • Ben Jonson The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bill Kurtis The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Anthony Holden The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Anita Loos The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Alexander Smith The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Anne Campbell The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Bode Miller The silver medals I won in Salt Lake City didn't give me anything. Last year I set myself the goal of winning the World Cup and lining up a long series of wins. It was my private challenge.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach The trees creak with their arthritic arms / brittle in thier powederd bark / this year took ten years to / tell me that I'm alone again
    Perfecting Loneliness (2002) Further North
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Boris Johnson The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bill Gates The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Horace Walpole The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Baba Kalyani The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bar Refaeli The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
    Bar Refaeli
    Israeli model, actress, and entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Robert Browning The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Beck The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • A. Whitney Brown There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
    The Big Picture: An American Commentary (1991)
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
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  • William Makepeace Thackeray There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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  • Carlos Fuentes There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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