Quotes with thousand-a-year

Quotes 501 till 520 of 561.

  • Brad Delson We're resolving our differences and we're looking forward to putting out a record next year.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Blank We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
    - +
     0
  • Burnie Burns We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arne Duncan We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
    - +
     0
  • Henry Louis Mencken Wealth - Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
    - +
     0
  • Anthony Holden Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
    - +
     0
  • Barry Levinson Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Dickinson Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
    - +
     0
  • Andrew Wiles Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Laffer What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
    - +
     0
  • Mark Twain What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Babe Ruth What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
    - +
     0
  • Robert Browning What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
    - +
     0
  • Sydney Smith Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Schneier When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ban Ki-moon When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
    - +
     0
  • Billy Casper When I drive into Augusta and down Magnolia Lane, there's just a spirit and nostalgia about it that you experience nowhere else. Why? Because it's the same place every year.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bob Geldof When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bennet Omalu When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
    - +
     0
  • Brett Ratner When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
    - +
     0
All thousand-a-year famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 26)