#thou

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#cheese #corn #cows #day #every

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#fifty #forth #good #hundred #least

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. ↗

— John Guare

#city #george #george steinbrenner #i #i think

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing. ↗

— Val Guest

#bad #better #enough #i #make

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#between #box #common #could #deal

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#annoying #believe #born #children #hard

I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#disguise #hats #hide #i #most

I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#any #dallas #especially #everybody #get

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. ↗

— William Hague

#common #common sense #discipline #good #high

People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#anything #asking #commodity #five #give