The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy. — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room. — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can… — Thomas Rowe Price, Jr Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie. — Robert Mark Kamen Copy Share Image
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather… — Keith Coogan Copy Share Image
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in… — Aarti Sequeira Copy Share Image
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out… — Questlove Copy Share Image
What kind of motivated me to join the Black Panther Party was that I, along with some of the comrades that I… — Sekou Odinga Copy Share Image
It [going from mini-series to series] was never even discussed because it [The Starter Wife] was, you know, an adaptation of a… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
There's ten of us, we've been best friends for thirty years. Ten guys. And their wives, and their kids, are all family… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I don't think I can put my finger exactly on when remission occurred, because from that moment on, I left Western medicine… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
My dad abandoned me when I was about two years old. So, he wasn't around to protect me the way I needed… — Pattie Mallette Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much right on schedule. Start off slow, finish up strong. I don't know why everyone panics. I've been doing this… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
I want to have a huge album that's, like, 18 or 19 tracks. I hate those albums where there's only, like, ten… — Eva Simons Copy Share Image
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals. — Walt Dohrn Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or… — Michael Jeter Copy Share Image
There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image