#sand

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#earth #ecclesiastical #else #everything #fixed

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#came #dollars #game #get #go

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#clock #competition #desperate #friday #friday night

By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps, create thousands of new jobs and bring a much needed boost to our economy. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#begin #boost #bring #create #dependence

The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#america #become #citizen #each #fundamental

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#curious #dead #english #english people #few

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#adam sandler #comedies #continue #i #make

My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#adam sandler #good-looking #i #multi-millionaire #name

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

#experience #into #like #meanings #shell

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#american troops #growing #insurgency #into #iraqi