Twenty Three Thousand Quotes

#1. Mexicans alone - forget other immigrants - have murdered a minimum of twenty-three thousand Americans in the last few decades.68

Ann Coulter

#2. Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. London had heavy attacks on the sixteenth and seventeenth; over twenty-three hundred people were killed, more than three thousand seriously injured.

Winston S. Churchill

#4. Black slaves seem to have cost from two to three hundred dirhams; black eunuchs, at least two or three times as much. Female black slaves were sold at five hundred dirhams or so; trained singing girls or other performers, at ten or even twenty thousand.

Bernard Lewis

#5. It's harder to come back than it is to arrive.

Dorothy B. Hughes

#6. When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

Pete Rose

#7. When you have nothing to say,
set something on fire.

Richard Siken

#8. We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

Betty Dodson

#9. 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

#10. Babies laugh three thousand times a day. Adults twenty, if we're lucky.

Diane Keaton

#11. Dad says there are more than three thousand letters in the Japanese alphabet, which could pose a problem. There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, and I get into enough trouble with them as it is.

Rin Chupeco

#12. True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

Max Beerbohm

#13. They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.

William Cowper

#14. 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

#15. Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

Bernadette Peters

#16. All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#17. In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

Yoko Ono