Twenty Six Hundred Quotes

#1. One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

Smedley Butler

#2. The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world ... What it hasn't got is not worth having ...

Kenneth Grahame

#3. Five-hundred-fifty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents worth of Christmas decorations.

Heather Horrocks

#4. Education is knowledge by the students, for the students and of the students.

Anirban Sengupta

#5. The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

Smedley Butler

#6. Goal-oriented actions bring success but actions with love and kindness bring happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Rubbish. The Taj Mahal is only a hundred eighty-six square feet. This house has twenty-five thousand."
I stared at him blankly.
"I was kidding," he said.
I stared at him blankly.
"All right, I wasn't kidding. Let's go, shall we.?"
"After you, my liege.

Michelle Hodkin

#8. That iPhone sitting in your pocket is the exact equivalent of a Cray XMP supercomputer from twenty years ago that used to cost ten million dollars. It's got the same operating system software, the same processing speed, the same data storage, compressed down to a six-hundred-dollar device.

Anonymous

#9. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with greatness in men.

Chinua Achebe

#10. I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions, I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot ... and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - MICHAEL JORDAN

Frank Luntz

#11. Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Malcolm X

#12. We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.

Astro Teller

#13. Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

Woodrow Wilson

#14. I hadn't gone to one dance in my entire high school
career. I was six foot tall and a hundred and twenty
pounds. When I danced, I looked like a praying mantis
on fire.

Justin Halpern

#15. Though he was only twenty-six, he felt that he had watched the decay and dissolution of a hundred years. Nothing of the past remained untouched. Not the old buildings,

Ellen Glasgow

#16. Don't write for money.

William T. Vollmann

#17. I was dressed in khaki shorts, a surfing T-shirt and white Vans. Coupled with my amazing tan and disarming smile, I was surprised I wasn't more often confused with Jimmy Buffet. If Jimmy Buffet stood six foot four and weighed two hundred and twenty. "You

J.R. Rain

#18. Staying away from things you like and doing things well even if you do not like them are the real challenges in life.

Bhishmaraj Bam

#19. My first published novel was 'Mother of Demons,' which is simply 'The High Crusade' standing on its head. Poul Anderson placed his medieval human heroes in a futuristic alien setting; I placed my futuristic human heroes in a bronze age alien setting.

Eric Flint

#20. There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather ... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

Mark Twain

#21. there are twenty-four hours in a day, sixty minutes in an hour and sixty seconds in a minute. A lot can be done in eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds.

Alexandre Dumas

#22. We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

Virginia Woolf

#23. Death is the only grammatically correct full stop.

Brian Patten

#24. Marston liked to say that Wonder Woman was meant to be "psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world," but neither he nor Gaines seem to have given much thought to hiring a woman to draw her.

Jill Lepore

#25. One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.

Holly Johnson

#26. Why are other people profiting off that? I can see that if I have the page and sold it for $50 and 20 years later somebody's got it for $200, okay. That's business. But I had no say in that art being out there. It just really burns me.

Mike Royer

#27. Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization.

Timothy Leary