Quotes of: Thousand Keyword

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.             * I abjure advice-giver.

Star Dust

Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

The Magus

There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she's managed to walk away from.

Marvelous

I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real.

My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar

To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.

The Moon and Sixpence

What did you do to her?” There were a thousand things he’d done. He settled on: “I made a mistake.

No Good Duke Goes Unpunished

And at night, when it breathes delicately from silence - I love listening to your voice. It is like a heavenly graceful singing of thousands of stars.

Love Poems: Love Conquers All

It is an odd thing that you can easily get millions of pounds for weapons to destroy life, but it is exceedingly difficult to get thousands for weapons to preserve it.

Leaves From A Surgeon's Case-Book

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.

Little Fuzzy

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

The Library at Night

Let us hush this cry of 'Forward', till ten thousand years have gone.

Loksley Hall, Day Dream and Other Poems

I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.

The Lightning Thief

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

Super Sad True Love Story

The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces

Styxx

After the leave-taking, there is the leaving. And once you have left, you discover the ten thousand things that you still carry - memories of touch, scent and sight.

The Storyteller's Tale

All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can predict, is the past.

Sophie's World

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

Thérèse Desqueyroux

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity

Our National Parks

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

The Orphan Master's Son

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

Old Ways