Million Quotes - page 4

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990]. (Gloria Estefan)
However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance. View quote
Jamie Oliver
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.' View quote
Bruce Dickinson
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was. View quote
Philip Pullman
Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily. View quote
Ian McEwan
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. View quote
Charles Barkley
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. View quote
Ted Turner
In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets. ... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. (Cecil Rhodes)
I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money. View quote
Steve Jobs
If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year. View quote
Steve Jobs
We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe-without swords, without guns, without conquest-will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony... View quote
Robert Graves
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more. View quote
A. A. Milne
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb...Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago. View quote
James Lovelock
Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me. View quote
Timothy Leary
Between 1945 and 2005 the United States has attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. In the process, the U. S. caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair. View quote
William Blum
The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us. (Ronald Fisher)
If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand. View quote
Edie Sedgwick
For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes. View quote
Benito Mussolini
The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes... View quote
Woody Allen
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy