Five Hundred Quotes

144 Five Hundred quotes by 134 unique authors

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four… — Jim Valvano
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe. — Tom Wolfe
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water... — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army… — Jerry Seinfeld
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never… — John Steinbeck
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a… — Jorge Luis Borges
Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my… — Rick Riordan
But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of… — Joshua Chamberlain
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the… — P.G. Wodehouse
Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later. — Douglas Adams
I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts. — Mary E. Pearson
That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the… — Sue Monk Kidd
My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone,… — Alexandre Dumas
Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I… — Markus Zusak
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed… — Mark Twain
Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine… — Marcel Proust
And, whoa!" He turned to Mr.D. "Your the wine dude? No way!" Mr.D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of… — Rick Riordan
Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir. Why are you… — Karen Chance
The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with… — Joseph Heller
so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're… — Eddie Izzard
In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each… — Neil Gaiman
Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain… — Gene Luen Yang
My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne. — Suzanne Brockmann
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence… — Adam Smith

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