#thousand

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#books #happy #himself #least #man

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ↗

— Mark Twain

#either #geniuses #live #others #themselves

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. ↗

— Buddha

#brings #hollow #one word #peace #than

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've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#hundreds #i #news #started #stories

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#day #desperately #die #every #every night

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever. ↗

— Christo

#believe #could #definitely #dinosaurs #even

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#bat #careers #down #else #friendships

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#baseball #course #did #get #golf