#hundred

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all? ↗

— Johannes Rau

#ago #asked #co-operative #composers #course

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then. ↗

— Richie Ashburn

#base #baseball #became #because #believe

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#although #during #entertained #give #give me

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear! ↗

— William Allen Butler

#cost #declare #dollars #dress #five

I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#expect #first #first kiss #front #had

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity. ↗

— Robert Doisneau

#end #eternity #even #here #hundredth

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#civil war #day #five #good #good day

In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#anymore #because #character #character actor #doors

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day, we have a lot of catching up to do. ↗

— Heather King

#catching #children #day #five #hundred

Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#continent #forceful #hundreds #injustice #laws