#mill

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes. ↗

— Pete Maravich

#dollars #million #passes #pay #you

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. ↗

— Jules Massenet

#behind #departed #each #earthly #i

We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all. ↗

— Francis Maude

#britons #come #hadn #here #home

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason. ↗

— Barry McCaffrey

#behind #doubled #federal #federal level #last

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. ↗

— Colman McCarthy

#did #millennia #our #problems #stop

If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole. ↗

— Leo McKern

#get #i #known #millions #obit

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#average #break #get #households #less

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#admission #always #been #canada #complain

The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count. ↗

— George Mikes

#consists #count #divided #does #english

In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer. ↗

— Gary Miller

#barrels #day #demand #gasoline #grow