#sand

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction. ↗

— William Banting

#affliction #alike #am #being #constitutions

The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#bigger #clearly #individual #institutional #millions

He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic. ↗

— Lance Bass

#picnic #sandwiches #short

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#broke #calculation #child #cold #front

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#coming #family #frozen #getting #had

I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.' ↗

— Peter Berg

#back #barbra #barbra streisand #been #believer

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#attitude #becomes #contracted #everyone #eye

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally. ↗

— Michael Biehn

#had #her #i #money #name

I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off. ↗

— David Zucker

#adam sandler #because #camera #i #just

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds. ↗

— Ville Valo

#buy #cds #collecting #i #lot