Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

I would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I'm too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comics a month. Maybe one day!

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

My quality is my intuition. I can't just ignore that, can I? Then I'd be a player of whom there are a thousand of my age.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

There are more than thousand mother tongues spoken in our country. This is not just a number but a reason to be proud of.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.

I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.

Anybody can make a thousand dollar garment because you find the finest fabric and the finest mills, and you churn that out.

I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.

Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

Well there were other Maharajis, so Neem Karoli Baba was his technical name, like there are a thousand Lamas called Rinpoche.

I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.

Fondle the woman in your life once for every thousand times you play with your private parts. That should be just about right.

In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.

I really love standup because it's something that I've been literally doing for 40 years, which means I'm a thousand years old.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

Everywhere else in the day, my brain is in a thousand different places, but when I'm working out, I can only focus on the pain.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

There's no real high like finishing a new song, playing it a thousand times in your car, and freaking out with your co-writers.

You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into about 10 cups of coffee a day.

Every place has a story - or a thousand stories. Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope to go.

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

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