Top 100 A Hundred Quotes
#1. If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.
Anais Nin
#2. It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.
Gilbert Arenas
#3. You hate to tell new stuff to somebody around a hundred years old. They don't like to hear it.
J.D. Salinger
#4. Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now? she says.
Chuck Palahniuk
#5. If tears could bring him back, there'd be enough to bring him back a hundred times.
Lisa Schroeder
#6. Oh shut up - you know damn good and well there can be a hundred people in the room, 99 of them rushing up to say they love your dress, but until that one, the one you wore it for, says something, you might as well be wearing a trash bag.
S.E. Hall
#8. Shadow was a couple of a hundred yards away from his motel, and he walked there, breathing the cold air, past red and yellow and blue lights advertising every kind of fast food a man could imagine, as long as it was a hamburger.
Neil Gaiman
#9. Do you hear yourself? You're a hundred and forty. A member of the Bloodkin Triad. Not a ... a ... boy. His mother was having trouble forming words. She was stuck between human and dragon. She wanted fire, but if she shifted, she'd lose her ability to argue with him. How terrible for her.
Erin Kellison
#10. They were far from a hundred, but they fought like a hundred.
Stephen King
#11. In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.
Colin Wilson
#12. Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. The editing process, for me, is both the most fun and the most frustrating. It's the most fun because you get to see it actually piece together. But if one thing is off, it can be frustrating trying to figure out exactly what it is that's bumping you, so you try a hundred different things.
Scott Foley
#14. I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.
Stephen Colbert
#15. I fantasize about fucking you in this office a hundred times a day.
Samantha Young
#16. I carried you to the Explorer and you couldn't even hold your head up. You passed out in my lap after you told me there was no one to care if you woke up. I live to be a hundred, mamita, I'll never forget it. Not one fuckin' second of it.
Kristen Ashley
#17. Death from hunger happened a hundred yards from death from obesity.
Anne Perry
#18. I'm really tired of people saying what is lost in translation. Look at what you gain. You gain three universes worth of books. It's worth it to lose something in translation, if you can get a hundred more texts that are going to change your life.
Arshia Sattar
#19. After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
Charles Perrault
#20. In a flash of anger, Midas grabbed a sod of earth and hurled it at the water, which broke into a hundred chained circles. Picturing Ida like the body in the bog made his heart seem to wilt and blow away. His face screwed through expressions.
Ali Shaw
#21. That woman's been riding the same broomstick for almost a hundred years.
Seth Adam Smith
#22. Most girls I know would consider that wish fullfillment, not torture."
I sat back, shaking my head. "Why does everyone keep saying that? Who says just because I'm a girl I'm hardwired to want to spent a hundred and eighty bucks on jeans?
Sarah Dessen
#23. Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
Tanith Lee
#24. I love to watch my movies. You have no idea ... I would watch my movies like over a hundred times ... ,
Nadia Buari
#25. I'd give a hundred dollars for a cold beer.
Joe Dugan
#26. We have our arts, the ancients had theirs ... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
Voltaire
#27. Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if we shoot our opponents a hundred times and hit every time. As long as they've hit us once, we've lost, because the U.S. is so much more reliant on those systems.
Edward Snowden
#28. The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand nobodies out there who are probably making better music. Self-releasing is the only way to go.
Tony Visconti
#29. [His faith] was a hundred small perfect steps that in the end can never add up to dance ... not the kind I wanted, anyway. Not the tango of Argentina, of the Spanish birthday party.
Addie Zierman
#30. And most of all, she loved the way books could transport her from her otherwise mundane and stifling life and offer the experiences of a hundred other lives.
Cynthia Hand
#31. Children woke up at six-thirty in the morning and shifted directly into fourth gear. Fourteen hours later they rushed straight into sleep at more than a hundred miles an hour without decelerating.
Peter Hoeg
#32. If we had played Poly a hundred more times that year we wouldn't have beaten them again. On that night we found a way. It was an unbelievable thing. It was a marvelous, miraculous win." -Coach Frank Allocco
Neil Hayes
#33. If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.
Jon Stewart
#34. There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we as writers give to the world is to bear witness to these landscapes and species as we have experienced them.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#35. Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
Berenice Abbott
#36. If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think.
Ellie Goulding
#37. I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.
Rita Rudner
#38. briefly to have stabilised, and a hundred initiatives
M.R. Carey
#39. It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ...
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#40. This is how talents weave from generation to generation, how the shadow stretches, and how an artist born nearly a hundred years earlier begins to fill the soul of a child who shares his name.
Mitch Albom
#41. The fear of criticism robs man of his initiative, destroys his power of imagination, limits his individuality, takes away his self-reliance, and does him damage in a hundred other ways.
Napoleon Hill
#42. We only live a hundred years
Let's Make it the best time of our life
Filip Hellings
#43. But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.
Lucy Christopher
#44. You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
Lenny Kravitz
#46. There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
#47. No doubt, the flakes of snow falling over him carried ashen nuclei. John tried to concentrate on those tiny flecks of carbon at the center of each snowflake. He tried to think of their elemental futures. Perhaps a hundred thousand years from now they would become tiny diamonds.
Ginn Hale
#48. Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
Joan Didion
#49. How have a hundred men who wish for a master the right to vote on behalf of ten who do not? The law of majority voting is itself something established by convention, and presupposes unanimity, on one occasion at least. 6.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#50. I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself ... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.
Joan Miro
#51. A hundred pounds! He couldn't remember ever having seen a hundred pounds, all at one time. He found himself envying his father, who had nothing to worry about except the future of mankind.
John Mortimer
#52. When I started out. I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free.
Jim Carrey
#53. Offering you a hundred and eighty dollars, pure profit, and no worries.
Louis Sachar
#54. You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
Rumi
#55. Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
Catullus
#56. Lately, the thought of tomorrow is like the thought of a hundred years into the future. Who can imagine that Germany will still exist?
Aleksandr Voinov
#57. Love God first, and your husband second. Remember to compliment him, because if you don't, someone else will. And always give a hundred percent. If you both do that, you'll be covered on the days when someone slips a little.
Karen Kingsbury
#58. I told myself it was the snow - she couldn't possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It's amazing the sorts of things you'll make yourself believe.
Libba Bray
#59. I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
Margaret Atwood
#60. The suitors: a hundred of the greediest, evilest cut-throats who'd ever lived.
Rick Riordan
#61. To have everything written for you ... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
Buddy Rich
#62. I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.
Eric Bana
#63. Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.
Jerry Spinelli
#64. So I've seen my boys do that a hundred times with the neighboring pixy girls. Give her their favorite seed and be too flustered to tell her what it was.
Kim Harrison
#65. 'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#66. A couple can be quite intimate without sharing bodies - though you will likely not believe that, my Cam. But it can be true. What I feel for you is highly intense, whether you are standing next to me or living a hundred miles away. I do not have to be touching you at all to experience what I feel.
Jennifer Ashley
#67. A man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first.
George R R Martin
#68. I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.
Gary Shteyngart
#69. If we had helped a hundred children it would have all been worthwhile.
Milton S. Hershey
#70. Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.
John Piper
#71. Oh, God, I'm going to be a hundred and sixty with a flower on my ass.
Kim Harrison
#72. Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.
Martin Luther
#73. Why are you so afraid of silence,
silence is the root of everything.
If you spiral into its void,
a hundred voices will thunder
messages you long to hear
Rumi
#74. Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.
Steven Pinker
#75. So I've got five books, a building, and a hundred bucks.
I'm starting my business tomorrow.
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
#77. I want to stand by the river in my finest dress. I want to sing, strong and hard, and stomp my feet with a hundred others so that the waters hum with our happiness. I want to dance for the renewal of the world.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#78. I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
Mario Andretti
#79. The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.
Don DeLillo
#80. The only sounds here were lazy, ponderous, gentle sounds. A bee hung low in the warm afternoon haze, and he watched it unafraid, listened to the dull electric razor sound of its wings cutting the air. Birds sang sweet and unseen, and a hundred eyes watched him from the dark.
Michael Montoure
#81. Galapagos tortoise," she said. "I'm one hundred and seven years old." "Huh. And you don't look a day over a hundred and five," I said.
James Patterson
#82. The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked ... Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?
Shaquille O'Neal
#83. Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.
Harry Browne
#84. Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually ... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
Johannes Tauler
#85. I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and ... it wasn't that important - because I never did it for the money.
Steve Jobs
#86. If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organised religions. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development.
Swami Vivekananda
#87. Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede
not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#88. Don't blink. You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your 'better half' Of fifty years is there in bed. And you're praying God takes you instead. Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think So don't blink.
Kenny Chesney
#89. A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Samuel Butler
#90. The solution is so obvious, but for so many of us we would travel a hundred miles out of the way to avoid it, gather a thousand opinions on the way and take a pit stop in fear to check our map before we proceed through hell. Heaven was always a direct flight with no layovers.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. It's just like a liberal, they import slaves, they hold slaves, they fight for slavery, they go to war in a civil war to defend slavery. They then install legal discrimination against blacks for a hundred years
Ann Coulter
#92. Oh, I have plenty of problems with Rabbit, it's just that my comfort level with his name is standing in line behind about a hundred more important things.
Elle Lothlorien
#93. Isolfr," Frithulf said, "you weigh a hundred stone."
"Do I? Sorry," and he tried to straighten, but nothing was working.
Frithulf swore and said,"Kari, I think I'm going to need you to get his feet."
Are they running away? Isolfr wanted to ask.
Sarah Monette
#94. For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money? How, for instance, is it worse than trade? True, out of a hundred persons, only one can win; yet what business is that of yours or of mine?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#95. From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
Margaret Mead
#96. Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license," and they will define freedom out of existence.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#97. When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler
#98. I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.'s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn't been done before.
Amar Bose
#99. It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look.
Polly Horvath
#100. He was covered in blood. He was pretty sure it was all Butch's, but not a hundred percent. Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, he missed things like getting shot. He
James S.A. Corey
