Ten Thousand

Famous quotes containing the words ten thousand, ten and/or thousand:

““Epic poem,—ten thousand lines—revolution of July—composed it on the spot—Mars by day, Apollo by night,—bang the field-piece, twang the lyre.””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)