#thousands

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

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

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#almost #becoming #billions #dictionary #dollars

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#five #nothing #orchestras #played #some

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#bravery #dignity #ground #having #hit

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

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#because #college #college students #day #days

Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#bought #clothes #dollars #i #instead

There are thousands of girls out there who could be doing my job. ↗

— Yasmeen Ghauri

#doing #job #out #thousands #who

About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up. ↗

— Adam Kinzinger

#amount #built #district #friends #get