Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis XIV

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Jan Eliasson

We have worked through the families, the travel agencies. We've sent ... up to a hundred people to go through the hospitals.

Three hundred firefighters are out at the moment and 2000 are on standby for immediate deployment. New South Wales crews are on standby to support others states if needed.

You know there was a time a hundred years ago when people were shooting each other as part of that rivalry.

Octavio Paz

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Mario Andretti

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

We've obviously played a hundred times better than we did in the first half.

Alan Trammell

Two hundred would be a nice number for him.

Jake Gyllenhaal

But obviously, it means a hundred million things to other people. It's one big question. So, naturally, people have a lot of answers.

Benjamin Franklin

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Ireland Baldwin

There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it - I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

Han Fei

Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.

Rumi

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Heidi Klum

I'm not that patient sometimes. I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.

Amy Bloom

If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.