Billion Quotes

961 Billion quotes by 694 unique authors

When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So… — Paul Erdos
Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between… — Julie Taymor
This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United… — John Spratt
All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's… — Allyson Schwartz
Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control… — Jan Schakowsky
China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and… — Lee Kuan Yew
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion… — David Stockman
Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A… — Ernest Cline
The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't even talked about the moons. And… — Seth Shostak
I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life… — Yuri Milner
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the… — Walter Lang
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. — Hannes Alfven
Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects. — Michael K. Simpson
If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
If I had a billion dollars I would...oh wait...already do. — Zach Braff
It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years… — George Gamow
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of… — Bill Bryson
Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this… — Peter Diamandis
One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve funds.' Health care… — Paul Broun
It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it… — Bill Bryson

Who Wrote These Billion Quotes

694 authors contributed a total of 961 Billion Quotes, led by these top contributors: