Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you're driving, you're doing a hundred things at once and all you can see in the back are students heads.

Samuel Butler

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Shirley Franklin

Nobody's ever been in this situation, at least not in a hundred years. So I think he's performed incredibly,

Octavio Paz

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Mario Andretti

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

Jan Eliasson

We have worked through the families, the travel agencies. We've sent ... up to a hundred people to go through the hospitals.

Holly Black

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.

Confucius

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.

John Irving

I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.

David Ricardo

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.

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

William Faulkner

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

Brittany Bowe

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

That's been the simple principle in a hundred years of football.

Robert Frost

The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.

Wilson Mizner

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Dr. Seuss

I meant what I said and I said what I meant - An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent! Dr

I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hundred deer. Zoos would sell me this stuff or they'd trade.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Marc Bulger

You've got to go with Torry, but once they get going, maybe the second hundred (yards), Kevin would win,

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: / And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

All be the same in a hundred years

Laurence Sterne

For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.

for every one that is hurt or killed there are a hundred more that are willing to sign up and be policemen and to join the new Iraqi army.

Jami Attenberg

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'

Chelsea Clinton

Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.

This is for a hundred years. It's going to be an old project. We're going to get through this just fine, and next year's going to be even better.

At peak construction, I imagine we will have several hundred people working there. We'll have 20 or 30 people there off the bat.

A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings.

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

Josh Billings

I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else

Ziyi Zhang

The word 'world' for me is really hard. A hundred times later, I was able to say it.