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We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
One hundred only, Lord Earl. But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind.
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.
We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.
This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.
We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.
Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.
You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.
Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.
I want a one hundred percent guarantee that they’ll all be fine.” I tell Mrs. Garcia. She pats my knee. “Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in life.
I've bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck.
The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks.
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.
DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like 'The Avengers' breaking six hundred million domestic.
It's weird: when I first got on Twitter, I had a couple hundred, then thousand, followers. Now I have over 53,000.
But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.
The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.
You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.
Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.
We have to do everything a hundred and ten percent when we're doing it. If we're on tour, we're constantly thinking of different ways to make the show better, or whatever it is.
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
I had this scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, and a couple of hundred extra dollars, and I showed up in Oregon and went to school there.
We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
If I go play 'Modern Warfare,' I'll find a hundred different things I'd like done differently. And I don't have the discipline to not express my opinion.
I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to me.
I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.
I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.
My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'
On Friday night, it was fun [to know] that if you bombed, or whatever was going on, that you'd be on TV at 11. It was a cool feeling, and you'd get a couple hundred dollars.
Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing.
Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.
And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.
there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a 200-hundred-year supply of brake fluid.
I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
...One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.
Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.
Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations.
Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
