Quotes of: Thousand-miles Keyword

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

Anthony Trollope

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.

Kerry Thornley

One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.

Cheryl James

I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.

Richard Flanagan

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

Tom Chatfield

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.

Jeff Foxworthy

In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A lifetime of joy, sorrow, laughter, frowns, smiles, tears... life!

Faraaz Kazi

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Francois Mauriac

An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with a believable lie to answer it

Carl Henegan

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

C. L. R. James

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Carrie Snow

America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.

Henry Rollins

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

Ian MacKaye

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

Ian MacKaye

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

Irving Penn

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

Jean de la Bruyere

Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm.

Jo Bonner

I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.

Jim Cramer

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Douglas MacArthur