#thousand

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! ↗

— Davy Crockett

#chance #fame #fellow #greased #hands

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan. ↗

— Burton Cummings

#bob dylan #could #dylan #live #mccartney

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#count #district #districts #governments #lighting

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#college #college education #dollars #economists #education

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

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#books #happy #himself #least #man

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ↗

— Mark Twain

#either #geniuses #live #others #themselves

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#become #business #dedicated #devote #engineering

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#backbone #individual #man #men #mere

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. ↗

— William Godwin

#apprehend #conceive #exercise #imagination #must