900 Quotes

#1. For the purpose of human health, it appears that it is wise to work and live below 4,900 feet.

Steven Magee

#2. You're financially independent if you have $15,000 coming in and $14,900 going out.

Ernie J Zelinski

#3. In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important

Matt Smith

#4. I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

Jim Cantalupo

#5. There was more silence and Bosch pictured his partner on the other end of the line in a $900 suit and a bankrupt frown.

Michael Connelly

#6. In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.

Marilyn Yalom

#7. I get all excited when I think that someone's 1-900 sex call from a cell phone might be passing through my body right now.

David Henry

#8. Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.

Bruce Chatwin

#9. For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.

Douglas Brinkley

#10. The term "starvation diet" refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: "suicide.

Marya Hornbacher

#11. I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'

Jennifer Tilly

#12. This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars ... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

Solomon Ortiz

#13. Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

Page McConnell

#14. Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than Pittsburgh. Nine million people a day travel over 900 bridges classified as structurally deficient, some of them on a heavily traveled section of I-95.

Steve Kroft

#15. I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases ... is an old-fashioned idea.

Ron Paul

#16. Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people's online activities and identities.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#17. We still have systems we don't need, we have infrastructure we don't need. Why do you have over 900,000 bureaucrats working in one way or another in all these systems.

John Kasich

#18. We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It was a typical Southern town - there are a lot of churches, and it's dry.

Robert Boswell

#19. The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus!

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#20. I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.

Jim Webb

#21. You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

P. J. O'Rourke

#22. Did you know the local tv channels broadcasts your 900 in an endless loop? It's a bunch of video want ads for snowmobiles, then some kind of school crap with Everett Walsh that nobody wants to see over and over,and then you.

Jennifer Echols

#23. Though Tikal may have been settled by at least 600 B.C., most of the city's edifices were built during what is called the Classic period of Maya history, from A.D. 250 to 900.

David Roberts

#24. We've written something like 900 songs in all.

Barry Mann

#25. This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.

Robin Tunney

#26. You can receive $900 or even $1,000 but when you don't appreaciate this money they don't have value.

Deyth Banger

#27. You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

Bob Feller

#28. The N2-20 is a military device and according to the last article I read it computes at 900 milicycles per millisecond. Though that was two months ago, so the information may not be reliable any longer." "If

Katina Vader

#29. President Obama released his tax returns. It turns out he made $900,000 less in 2011 then he did in 2010. You know what that means? Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama.

Jay Leno

#30. Of course you're not egotistical.
I checked, and you look very humble in all 900 of the selfies you posted on facebook.

Sienna McQuillen

#31. Do not let one moment go by that doesn't remind you that your heart beats 900 times a day, and there are enough gallons of blood to make everyone of you oceans

Anis Mojgani

#32. You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

Stephan Pastis

#33. I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.

Etgar Keret

#34. At a European auto show, I had someone from a German car company come up to me and say the Karma should cost $125,000, not $87,900, but our development process lets us lower the costs. I guarantee it's profitable.

Henrik Fisker

#35. Europe is good at many things, which is why we are the largest exporter in the world. Thirty million people in Europe are employed in making our exports of goods and services. Just under 900 thousand of them are in Sweden.

Cecilia Malmstrom

#36. You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree has stood here all along. What do you make of that, boy?

Natalie Babbitt

#37. There's no such thing as an ordinary human. Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before.

Stephen Moffat

#38. As I traveled around the country, I met hundreds if not thousands of people who want to change the country. And you've got, now, 1,900 Bernie [Sanders] delegates who are now going back to their communities in 50 states.

Jonathan Tasini

#39. Reports of missing persons have increased sixfold in the last twenty-five years, from roughly 150,000 in 1980 to 900,000 this year . . . More than 2,000 a day.

Craig Johnson

#40. When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Tony Hawk

#41. In the quarter century between 1979 and 2005, average after-tax income (adjusted for inflation) grew by $900 a year for the bottom fifth of American households, by $8,700 a year for the middle fifth, and by $745,000 a year for the top 1 percent of households.

Robert D. Putnam

#42. Hansen's disease" - that's the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy - "Hansen's disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years, America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy

Lou Dobbs

#43. We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.

Barbara Mikulski

#44. I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

Bjork

#45. Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

Vincent Van Gogh

#46. Reaching a maximum depth of more than 1,900 feet, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and among the deepest in the world.

Cheryl Strayed

#47. The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Juan Williams

#48. Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

Michael McCaul

#49. Sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of 900 million and an annual output of only 1.8 trillion euros (less than the French GDP of 2 trillion),

Thomas Piketty

#50. Consider God's love for you. Now double it. Now multiply that by 900 trillion. You're still not even close.

Mark Hart

#51. Amount of time an American child spends watching television, annually: 1,500 hours. Amount of time an American child spends in school, annually: 900 hours.

Peter Strupp

#52. Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.

Christopher Hitchens

#53. When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let him pull it over his head a few times, he'll learn.'

Jeff Foxworthy

#54. I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the only thing the winter Olympics show me is which country has more rich white kids. What's it cost to go skiing - $900 a day? I can't believe that's not more popular in the inner cities.

Daniel Tosh

#55. I think TARP was the most defining vote since I've been in Congress. It was wrong. You don't nationalize private - it was wrong. It desensitized people to what $700 billion was, which opened the door for a $900 million stimulus, for Obamacare, for all these things. It was wrong. It broke my heart.

Louie Gohmert

#56. Welcome to the last 900 years of my life.

Rebecca

#57. Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

Solomon Ortiz

#58. American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

Corey Clark

#59. To make a million, start with $900,000.

Morton Shulman

#60. If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

Lewis Buzbee

#61. from Canada, between 1840 and 1930 over 900,000 Quebecois traveled to the United States, and primarily to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Patrice DeMers Kaneda

#62. Every kilogram of beef requires 100,000 liters of water to produce. By comparison, a kilogram of wheat requires just 900 liters, and a kilogram of potatoes just 500 liters.

T. Colin Campbell

#63. What is that unforgettable line?

Samuel Beckett