I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.
Chuck D.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
Paul Cezanne

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
Paul Cezanne

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Charles Kettering

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
John Polkinghorne

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
Billy Sunday

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
Brendan Behan

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
George H. W. Bush

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
Christopher Marlowe

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Guru Nanak

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.
Kid Rock

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Robert M. Pirsig