Five Hundred Quotes

144 quotes by 134 authors

International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs, in the VIP… — Binyavanga Wainaina
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later… — John Trudell
I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or… — Andy Warhol
I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want… — James Frey
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train… — Pierre Trudeau
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with… — Glen Cook
A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5'4'tall you shouldn't… — Shashi Deshpande
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. — Richard Courant
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five… — George Mikes
Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with â€˜Sorry, I donâ€™t do booksâ€™? Can you imagine doing ministry in… — Leonard Sweet
Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give… — Erica Jong
Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth. — John H. Lienhard
It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying… — Joseph Sobran
It feltâ€”nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinosâ€”that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
I'll be the first to admit that my idea of God is pretty different. I believe in a God with a long white beard, a… — Jack Handey
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill
We went through the records and we found over five hundred of his patients who were alive and well five years after their treatment, with… — Gary Null
I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into… — Harvey Milk
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist… — Henry David Thoreau

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