Thousand

Famous quotes containing the word thousand:

    One good deed dying tongueless
    Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that;
    Our praises are our wages.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
    Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

    Charles Foster Kane: You always said you wanted to live in a palace.
    Susan Alexander: Oh, a person could go crazy in this dump. Nobody to talk to, nobody to have any fun with.
    Charles Foster Kane: Susan.
    Susan Alexander: Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I’m lonely.
    Orson Welles (1915–1985)