Hundred famous quotes
04-09-2025
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
-- A. R. Ammons -
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
-- A. R. Ammons -
Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
-- Abraham Cowley -
Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
-- Al Capone -
One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.
-- Amar Bose -
You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.
-- Amarillo Slim -
We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black...
-- Amy Winehouse -
There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.
-- Anabel Jensen -
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
-- Andrew Young -
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
-- Antonio Porchia -
I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
-- Art Linkletter -
If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?
-- Bill Lear -
It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
-- Bill Paxton -
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more
-- Bob Dylan -
The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.
-- Bob Paisley -
When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.
-- Bob Schieffer -
What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?
-- Brian Aldiss -
Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
-- Camille Claudel -
... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.
-- Caroline Llewellyn -
Never trust anyone under one hundred!
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
-- Catullus -
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
-- Charles Lamb -
I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!
-- Charles M. Schulz -
You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.
-- Charles S. Dutton -
There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.
-- Chauncey Depew -
Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.
-- Cheryl Strayed -
Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
-- Chuck Barris -
All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
-- Chuck Jones -
Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
-- Cleopatra -
And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.
-- Connie Willis -
You will train always for a hundred terrific reasons. Quit and it will be for no good reason at all.
-- Dave Draper -
Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.
-- David Ricardo -
I felt like a deer with a hundred hunters after me.
-- Deion Sanders -
It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.
-- Dolores Ibarruri -
One hundred ten thousand ears in this ballpark, and he's got to hit my ear.
-- Don Zimmer -
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
-- Donna Tartt -
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
-- Edgar Degas -
Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.
-- Elinor Lipman -
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
-- Ernest Mandel -
Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.
-- Forrest Carter -
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff -
Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
-- Gabrielle Zevin -
No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.
-- George Matthew Adams -
And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?
-- George Orwell -
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
-- George William Curtis -
After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.
-- Gwen Stefani -
In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink.
-- Henry Hazlitt -
In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.
-- Hermann Goring -
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
-- Ian Botham -
In visual art it's better once to see, than one hundred times to hear.
-- Igor Babailov -
The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.
-- Ilchi Lee -
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
-- Jean-Paul Marat -
Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one
-- Jeanette Winterson -
For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.
-- Jim Bouton -
I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.
-- Joanna Noelle Levesque -
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
-- John Calvin -
Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.
-- John H. Lienhard -
Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.
-- John Shelton Reed -
The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.
-- John Vaillant -
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
-- Joseph L. Mankiewicz -
My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.
-- Joseph Lancaster -
If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.
-- Judith McNaught -
Let me go.†“I can’tâ€, he said hoarsely, (…)†I’ve tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I can’t.
-- Judith McNaught -
In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.
-- Julius Nyerere -
Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.
-- Kano Jigoro -
A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.
-- Karl Kraus -
I've fallen in love a hundred times in my life! But never like you. So I wonder if I really fell or just tripped, you know?
-- Katy Evans -
You could do a hundred projects and still not have the fans that are there for Twilight.
-- Kellan Lutz -
Modeling is my number one priority - one hundred percent.
-- Kendall Jenner -
Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.
-- Kit Carson -
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
-- Kurt Tucholsky -
I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
-- Larry Brilliant -
Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
-- Lisa See -
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
-- Louis XIV -
But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.
-- Lucy Christopher -
Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.
-- Madonna Ciccone -
How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
-- Marvin Minsky -
I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.
-- Mary E. Pearson -
That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country
-- Masashi Kishimoto -
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
-- Melina Marchetta -
One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.
-- Merritt A. Edson -
Killing you and what you represent is a statement. I''m not a hundred percent sure exactly what it''s saying
-- Mickey Knox -
It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev -
If we had helped a hundred children it would have all been worthwhile.
-- Milton S. Hershey -
But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.
-- Miroslav Vitous -
One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.
-- Morrie Schwartz -
I love to watch my movies. You have no idea…I would watch my movies like over a hundred times…,
-- Nadia Buari -
Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
-- Natalia Makarova -
A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God.
-- Neem Karoli Baba -
Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.
-- O. J. Simpson -
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
-- Octavio Paz
