I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. . . . To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.
God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.
If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times
Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.
If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.
The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.
I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.
I have made love to ten thousand women.
A good quote is worth a thousand words.
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over.
There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.
I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.
I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.
Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.
I have lifted my plane. . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.