#thousand

I've reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#businesspeople #community #congress #country #exciting

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#desire #list #lose #new #pounds

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#billion #consider #days #dollars #eleven

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#angeles #become #celebrity #famous #found

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#archives #been #comb #diaries #free

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#change #civilization #emergence #hundreds #knowing

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. ↗

— John Barrymore

#fifth #had #i #i am #solomon

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#memories #more #old #than #thousand

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #awhile #birds #bring #come

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#books #caves #characters #i #i do