Quotes About One In A Million

#1. Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away; cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away ...

Liz Phair

#2. The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.

Jeff Goins

#4. I was one in a million. I wasn't bright enough to realize the circus fat lady is, too

Stephen King

#5. Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

Claude Lelouch

#6. Either this guy's one in a million or you're a psychotic bitch.
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Alessandra Torre

#7. Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition.

Robin Leach

#8. I don't believe athletes should be role models ... We're a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should be the least likely role models ... I think one of the problems in society today is that we don't stress education enough, because we glorify athletes, actors and actresses.

Charles Barkley

#9. I was convinced that I would be, that I was already, one in a million.

Simone De Beauvoir

#10. It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.

Francisco J. Ayala

#11. I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have my own taste in music, I really loved 'One In A Million.' That was my jam.

Alexandra Shipp

#12. You can be the one - in - a - million. Don't be discouraged by the odds to Succeed.

David Beckham

#13. The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

Kobe Bryant

#14. millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

Henry David Thoreau

#15. Do not be a one in a million person, be a once in a lifetime individual.

Jeffrey Fry

#16. There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.

A. Whitney Brown

#17. Everyone tells us to be one in a million ... What they don't tell us is that being one in a million also means being one against a million.

Saahil Prem

#18. They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

Ani DiFranco

#19. If there is a one-in-a-million chance that you will "make it," then SOMEBODY has to be that ONE. It may as well be YOU! So FIGHT, WARRIOR!

Margaret Aranda

#20. You're one in a million, John Matthew,

J.R. Ward

#21. The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had planets, and just one in a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life, there would be literally millions of civilizations out there.

Jodie Foster

#23. Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

Thomas Friedman

#24. One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one

Gayle Forman

#25. It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

Alfred Polgar

#26. Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

Rajneesh

#27. As Tim Minchin put it in his song "If I Didn't Have You": Your love is one in a million; You couldn't buy it at any price. But of the 9.999 hundred thousand other loves, Statistically, some of them would be equally nice.

Randall Munroe

#28. You know, there's something especially lonely about a gold medal hanging all by itself on a bedroom wall, something that says "fluke," or "beginner's luck," or "one in a million," but two gold medals, now that says something completely different. That says, "Oh, yeah, baby, this is the real deal!

Christopher Paul Curtis

#29. If you are one in a million, there are seven thousand of you on the planet.

M.R. Mathias

#30. She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.

Joyce Rachelle

#31. The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

Theodore Roosevelt

#32. He has one in a million chance of being with her, yet he dreams about that single chance every night.

Anonymous

#33. I'm good at looking good with weapons and stunts. But if you put a bull's eye in front of me and asked me to hit it, I'd say the chances of me hitting it are about one in a million!

Evangeline Lilly

#34. You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.

Kevin Durant

#35. All along I had been careful to differentiate my desire for love from my longing for a purely sexual thrill. Falling in love was a one in a million chance. Falling in love with another couple was a one in a billion chance. Or so I thought.

Louisa Leontiades

#36. You're one in a million, Ava, and it was important that you know the real me.

J.C. Reed

#37. Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Henry David Thoreau

#38. In china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

Bill Gates

#39. When we got married my wife told me I was one in a million. I found out she was right.

Rodney Dangerfield

#40. He is my one in a million too, my one in a million chance for happiness and love, the two things I thought I would never be granted again in life.

D.M. Omar

#41. I don't care about probabilities. If something were one-in-a-million, I would wonder if the one had found me. It's the uncertainty that's torture.

Jackie Lea Sommers

#42. John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?

Jay Leno

#43. Moments with a girl like that? I knew they were one in a million and I was on a mission to capture them all. Each. And every. One.

Rachel Van Dyken

#44. You'll find your one-in-a-million. But you're sharp enough to know there's no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

Kaye Gibbons

#45. The saying in China is If you're one in a million, there's still 1,300 people just like you.

Thomas L. Friedman

#46. People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring - they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you - you're one in a million. You're happy -

Anton Chekhov

#47. Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.

Jeremy Bonderman

#48. Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.

Sheila Jackson Lee

#49. Thank you Jonah."
He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting.
"For what?" he whispers.
" For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million.

Katie McGarry

#50. There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being sworn in. During his soaring inaugural address, the new president gazed over a teeming National Mall that was crowded with more than a million people.

Des Browne

#51. heart of mine has been shattered in a million pieces - but even during the worst of times, I had you. One of God's tender mercies. Love, Phoenix

Brenda Novak

#52. Often, what makes my job so exciting is designing for the mother whose dream has been to wear one of my hats at her child's wedding. I feel as responsible for making her feel like a million dollars as I do for somebody in the public eye.

Philip Treacy

#53. There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations and see what they say.

Greta Gerwig

#54. In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.

Gichin Funakoshi

#55. A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.

Raj Patel

#56. No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

Ronald Fisher

#57. America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

Tom Robbins

#58. And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.

Kathy Freston

#59. By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

John Maynard Keynes

#60. Whatever the reason for enlisting, by 1865 the Union had sworn in 2,128,948 men, approximately one-third of the military-age male population of the northern states, while the Confederacy probably enrolled a little under 1 million men, about four-fifths of its military-age male population.

Allen C. Guelzo

#61. I'd always known that when you went through one of these doors, you went to another planet, and that that other planet might be so far away, you couldn't fly there in spaceship in a million years. Somehow, the whole thing had never seemed strange before today.

Mary G. Thompson

#62. Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12 million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference.

LeAnn Rimes

#63. It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

Arlen Specter

#64. It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books ...

Mohsin Hamid

#65. I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily
choosing love, then choosing it again ... how loving and being in love could be so different.

Sue Monk Kidd

#66. We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix.

Ted Sarandos

#67. That's the illusion of war. You think the world is over when your city comes down. But then you realize that you're just one city in a planet the size of ten million cities" -Nim

Lauren DeStefano

#68. I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.

David Attenborough

#69. In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

Blanche Lincoln

#70. I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.

William Least Heat-Moon

#71. No [other rappers are on my level], none of them. Here, let me put it like this in the sky, there are a million stars, but when the sun appears, you see none of them. I am the sun.

KRS-One

#72. There was an old bastard named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That's a lot to have done in
But where he did one in
That old bastard Stalin did ten in.

Robert Conquest

#73. Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

Studs Terkel

#74. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#75. I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

Joe Biden

#76. That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#77. These days, we have a million things to do and usually one day to do them in.

Jenna Morasca

#78. It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.

Sudhir Kakar

#79. One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.'

Michio Kaku

#80. There might be a million wrong people in your life, but when the right one comes everything looks dark.

M.F. Moonzajer

#81. I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.

Justin Zackham

#82. What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh two decades ago, are a people who are aching to return to their homes.

Ed Kashi

#83. The Waldorf looked like one of the dead and empty spaces which collect about the exit of a man who has lost a million in an hour.

Norman Mailer

#84. The trouble with space is, there's so much of it.
An ocean of blackness without any shore.
A neverending nothing.
And here, all alone in the million billion miles of midnight, is one solitary moving speck. A fragile parcel filled with sleeping people and their dreams.

Philip Reeve

#85. The city had been built by people from innumerable elsewheres. It was a chaos of cultures ordered only by its long streets. It belonged to no one and never would, or maybe it was a million cities in one, unique to each of its inhabitants, belonging to whoever walked its streets.

Andre Alexis

#86. There have been over a million wells hydraulically fractured in the history of the industry, and there is not one, not one, reported case of a freshwater aquifer having ever been contaminated from hydraulic fracturing. Not one.

Rex W. Tillerson

#87. Morocco, one of the more fully developed countries in Africa, with a solid infrastructure and a population of about 27 million, holds roughly two thirds of the world's reserves of phosphate rock - phosphate deposits are to Morocco as oil is to Venezuela - and dominates the world market in this vital

Jim Rogers

#88. Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are.

Michael J. Gelb

#89. She ever marry?"
"No."
The no sounds like "not in a million years." Like Aunt Alice couldn't marry, like she has one arm and horns sticking out of her head and she talks in tongues. Or maybe has several tongues to talk with.

Travis Thrasher

#90. God put a million, million doors in the world for His love to walk through. One of those doors is you.

Jason Gray

#91. When Obama was elected president, a prisoner said one black man in the White House doesn't make up for one million black men in the Big House.

Angela Y. Davis

#92. Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim

Julius Malema

#93. Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#94. Clary knew she'd never be able to pull off that sort of elegance in a million years, and she didn't care. Isabelle was Isabelle, and Clary was grateful she existed, making the world a little fiercer with every one of her smiles.

Cassandra Clare

#95. I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

Charles Stross

#96. Eros supported a population of one and a half million, a little more than Ceres had in visitors at any given time.

James S.A. Corey

#97. That's not how I'd planned it to be."
"How did you plan it to be?" I ask, not to be snarky but because I am genuinely curious.
"I planned it to be a million different things," he replies. "And in the end, I couldn't figure which one it should be.

David Levithan

#98. Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.

Steve Farrar

#99. I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids.

Marlee Matlin

#100. Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.

Deng Xiaoping