I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities… — Harry Markowitz Copy Share Image
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director. — George Cukor Copy Share Image
That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once,… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I have a beautiful address book a friend gave me in 1966. I literally cannot open it again. Ever. It sits on… — Jerry Herman Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter. So I'm OK. But when I wrote "Stand By Me" as a song and to know that the song… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means… — Bhumibol Adulyadej Copy Share Image
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred… — John Edward Redmond Copy Share Image
Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart… — Mahmud Shabistari Copy Share Image
In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
The 4th sort of creatures... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. — William Lilly Copy Share Image
With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
