In Popular Culture
- In art, 1000 paintings has been a popular internet art project by Swiss artist Sala
- A grand is a slang term in English for one thousand units of a given currency. Several grand can be shortened to G's
- Especially in the United States, the gambling community often refers to denominations of $1000 as dimes
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- According to an ancient Japanese legend, anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane (From Wikipedia article Thousand origami cranes)
- The video game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- The video game Star Wars 1313
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“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)