Thousand Quotes - Page 40

• The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Government, Years, Two

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.91, Penguin

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• I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.360, Thomas Wolfe

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• The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Air, Hurricanes, Miles

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.263, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.

  Leon Uris

  Wall, Ghetto, Men

  LEON URIS (1961). “MILA 18”

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• Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.

  Leon Uris

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, 'Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not?' But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Hero, Technology

  Interview with Joshua Quittner, www.wired.com. September 01, 1994.

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• Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Eye, Son, Parent

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• A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Views, Ignorant

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Baby, Warrior

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• Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

  Douglas Adams

  Fall, Sheep, Blame

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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• Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

  Groucho Marx

  Motivational, Leadership, Witty

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• It'll be messy, but after a day you'll be zipping around as though you were a thousand years old again.

  Eoin Colfer

  Years, Messy, Thousand Years

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term.

  Eoin Colfer

  Believe, Kitchen, Caviar

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis Fowl: the arctic incident”, Viking

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• He looked back at her, and when she saw the look on his face, she saw his eyes at Renwick’s, when he had watched the Portal that separated him from his home shatter into a thousand irretrievable pieces. He held her gaze for a split second, then looked away from her, the muscles in his throat working.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Eye, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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• I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

  Louis L'Amour

  Skulls, Stories, Lasts

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.141, Bantam

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• In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Mother, Children

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• It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Men, Two

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.114

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• His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly. An image enters in, rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Powerful, Heart, Circles

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter W. Arndt (1989). “The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography ; Translated by Walter Arndt ; Foreword by Cyrus Hamlin”, p.161, UPNE

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• Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.

  Carl Sagan

  Years, Survival, Answers

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

  Henry Melvill

  Life, Sympathy, Beautiful

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• I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Sleep, Thinking, Years

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, February 1, 1999.

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• Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A moment of clear, silent hostility passed between us as hotly charged and unintentional as a thousand-volt arc through a squirrel.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Squirrels, Long

  Rick Riordan (2000). “The Last King of Texas”, Bantam

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• Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wise, Men, Obscurity

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• As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reflection, Mirrors, Identity

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.17, Penguin

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• She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.

  Henry Miller

  Beautiful, Eye, Sea

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