Thousand Quotes - Page 37

• The people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. But no one greets anyone; eyes lock for a second, then dart away, seeking other eyes, never stopping...something runs among them, an exchange of glances like lines that connect one figure with another and draw arrows, stars, triangles, until all combinations are used up in a moment, and other characters come on to the scene.

  Italo Calvino

  Running, Stars, Moving

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• It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a seat of unremarkable men and women anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabitized things a million forgotten hours.

  Billy Collins

  Book, Men, Night

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• What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Hero, Brave

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your head; I will speak the flowers of the field into a cloak; I will speak the racing stream into a melody for your ears and the voices of a thousand larks to sing it; I will speak the softness of night for your bed and the warmth of summer for your coverlet; I will speak the brightness of flame to light your way and the luster of gold to shine in your smile; I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Summer, Stars, Flower

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• I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Mean, Boys, Unique

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.85, eKitap Projesi

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• Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

  Daniel Defoe

  Fear, Danger, Ten

  Daniel Defoe (1995). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Years, Storm

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Dream

  Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “Poems”, Everyman's Library

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• The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

  William Wordsworth

  Beautiful, Men, Mind

  William Wordsworth (1850). “The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem”, p.371, London E. Moxon 1850.

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• Kallor said: "I walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?" "Yes," said Caladan Brood, "you never learn."

  Steven Erikson

  Strong, Children, Army

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.323, Random House

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• from one thing, know ten thousand things

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Knows, One Thing, Ten

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Love, Flower, Years

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• The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

  Bill Bryson

  Numbers, People, Effort

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.364, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Together, Hammers, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

  John Dunning

  Artist, Perfect, Missing

  John Dunning (2012). “The Bookman's Wake”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.

  Marguerite Duras

  Ignorance, Years, World

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• I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Girl, Order, Years

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.354, Penguin

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• and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Eye, Hatred

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• O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and has been so for many thousand years. I had a vision of a passing boat and heard some voices saying disquieting things. I heard a clock strike in some distant house... but in which house?... I long to quiet my anxious heart and stand beneath the sky's immensity. I long to pray... And one of all the stars must still exist. I do believe that I would know which one alone endured, and which like a white city stands at the ray's end shining in the heavens.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Believe, Heart

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Lament (O How All Things Are Far Removed)”

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• And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Nice, Men

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Spiritual

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 67, 1990.

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• There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Fear, Book, Differences

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• The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Baseball, Stars, Sunday

  "Elmer Gantry". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1927.

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• What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sky, Roots, Feet

  FaceBook post by Mark Z. Danielewski from Apr 10, 2017

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• I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together. Why did I do it? And would I do it again? It was I, you see, who ended it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Together, Lasts, Dear

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