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"dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."" »Paul Graham, September 2004
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"And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)" »Walt Whitman
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"Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant." »Glenda Jackson
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"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing." »Roger Caras
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"If a man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greater of conquerors.*" »The Dhammapada
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"You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Whenever anyone says 'I can't,' it makes me wish he'd get stung to death by about ten thousand bees. When he says 'I'll try,' five thousand bees. ('I can,' one bee.)" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent." »John Donne
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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery." »Mary B. Yates
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"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot." »Albert Einstein
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"The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done." »Francis William Bourdillon
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"A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm." »The Dhammapada
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"Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature." »George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
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"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score Then to that twenty, add a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun." »Robert Herrick
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here." »J Danforth Quayle
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"Man! What are you? Who are you? Just a shadow in this universe! You always forget this and the truth will always remind you what you really are! Do you want to be a real thing, not just a shadow? Improve your science ten thousand times; improve your science hundred thousand times! If you can’t improve your science, you will remain as a miserable shadow!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this." »Henry David Thoreau
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"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill
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"No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee." »John Donne
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"We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi." »Woody Allen
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"The go-between wears out a thousand sandals." »Japanese Proverb
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"It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves." »Feltham
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"To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand." »Hamlet II:ii
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"A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation." »Isaiah IX.22 Bible
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"One picture is worth a thousand words." »Fred R. Barnard
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"The first ten thousand miles is the hardest to walk." »Johnny Wowk
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"A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years." »Unknown
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"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied." »Alfred Bernhard Nobel
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