The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Christian Nestell Bovee

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides

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

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

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.

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

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph Addison

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
Ray Bradbury

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
Bruce Willis

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

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

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

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
Linus Torvalds

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez

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

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.
Nolan Ryan

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
Ville Valo