Millions Quotes - Page 27

• I waited, and I’m sure Elvis did too, for each Ricky Nelson record like we would a Chuck Berry record or a Fats Domino record, to see what was going on. I used to say to some of the guys that Ricky Nelson learned to sing on million selling records.

  Roy Orbison

  Guy, Records, Berries

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• I never thought in a million years, I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Girl, Morning, Exercise

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• I think part of what makes us unique as artists and as singers is that we can bare our souls in front of millions of people That's the magic and power of being an artist. You can be honest. Always remember that. And do not be afraid.

  Shawn Stockman

  Artist, Unique, Thinking

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• I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life.

  Lily Cole

  Want, Achieve, Platforms

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Home, Azerbaijan, Two

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• If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

  Karl Marx

  Selfish, Sacrifice, People

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.

  George McGovern

  Country, Son, Years

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• Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

  Amy Lowell

  Time, Giving, Greed

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

  Vannevar Bush

  People, Complicated, Affair

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos - what's to complain about?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Holocaust, Four

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• Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

  Thom Yorke

  Bathroom, Radiohead

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• The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Sleep, Thinking

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.

  James Patterson

  People, Stylist, Storyteller

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• You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you.

  Alfred Bester

  Heart, Thinking, Pigs

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• Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

  Alfred Bester

  Nonsense, Entropy, Cents

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to as many students as possible. We've assembled the very best in chess education to develop a complete chess curriculum - K through 12. We've designed a program that encourages creativity, instills self-discipline and offers hope and a feeling of accomplishment to millions of children.

  Garry Kasparov

  Children, Creativity, School

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• I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that? If I was in pain, I would have dieted. The pain is not there - the pain is someone printing a picture of me and saying those horrible things.

  Tyra Banks

  Pain, Dollars, Body

  "Tyra Talks". Interview, people.com. February 5, 2007.

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• There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.

  Mike Tyson

  Hate, Names, White

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• The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Heart, Dark

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• My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.

  Meg Whitman

  Thinking, Views, Matter

  "Meg Whitman's Exit Interview". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 24, 2008.

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• The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me

  June Allyson

  Roles, Barbara

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• I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Believe, Different Interpretations

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• I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

  Helen Keller

  Country, War, School

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.42, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should Have, Sea, Knives

  "The Life of Mahatma Gandhi". Book by Louis Fischer, 1950.

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• I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate

  Kathleen Turner

  Support Systems, Admiration, Underestimate

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