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I am spilling fire on every side. But I do not trust the 500 billion flames which I am training like dogs. — Paul Eluard

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

You cant run a football game in Tiger Stadium without 1,500-1,600 people to help, — Skip Bertman

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present. — Walter Salles

Newman and I were friends. We were great teammates, and he needs to check his trophy case on that Daytona 500 trophy I helped him get years ago. — Kurt Busch

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. — Michel Faber

Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare. — Charles Duhigg

Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action. — Jim Rogers

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels. — Rodney Carrington

I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing. — Ray Lewis

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. — Pete Incaviglia

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have. — Jared Leto

I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people. — Lee Scott

And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too. — Bryan Adams

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company. — Sela Ward

I feel like when I reach my 500-million-dollar goal, then no other woman in rap will ever feel like they can't do what these men have done — Nicki Minaj

With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out. — Larry King

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words. — Erez Lieberman Aiden

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. — Sam Harris

President Obama answered questions on YouTube today. He was asked 7,500 times about legalizing marijuana. And that was just from Chad in Portland. — Conan O'Brien

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power. — Jimmie Johnson

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian. — Robert Plant

Life is too short for 500 pages of crap. — Roman Blaire

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife. — Roger Spottiswoode

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong

I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race. — Cheech Marin

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman. — Billie Jean King

In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500. — Brad Delson

Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition. — Sophia Amoruso

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric. — Dick Gregory

The gospel of the glory of Christ spreads better and flourishes more because of 6,500 languages, not in spite of them. — John Piper

Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys. — Brian Sutton-Smith

Everybody has a magazine and a channel. There are 500 channels and 500 magazines, and we wonder why we're not united as a country. — Bill Maher

I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds. — Montel Williams

In terms of my work with Nike, obviously signing Michael Jordan to a $500,000 contract in 1984 set a new precedent for the business side of the game. — Sonny Vaccaro

I spent only $500 to start CD Baby. The first month, I earned back $300. But the second month I made $700, and it's been profitable every month since. — Derek Sivers

I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500. — Eli Broad

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos. — Heston Blumenthal

I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters. — Milton Glaser

We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children. — Randi Weingarten

Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today. — Peter Diamandis

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good. — Charles Barkley

I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500. — Dale Earnhardt

I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers. — E. E. Cummings

$500,000 Amount a California man claims he shouldn't have to pay a Las Vegas casino; his suit alleges that employees allowed him to gamble while drunk — Anonymous

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people? — Jacqueline Novogratz

Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran. — Abbas Kiarostami

Someone even called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget. — Jeb Bush

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5. — Jack Kilby

â‚¬7,500, first-class, everything - and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff. — Slavoj Zizek

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest. — Warren Buffett

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons! — Daphne Zuniga

I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around. — Joss Whedon

I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it. — Patrick Ness

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years? — John Adams

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs — Nancy Pelosi

I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops. — Jeremy Schoemaker

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years ... — Mike Cameron

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like. — Woody Harrelson

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they
wouldn't have to go so fast. — Steven Wright

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets. — David Gill

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight. — Lewis Black

Everybody become famous.

Some get the stage of 50000 at the age of 5
Some get the stage of 500 at the age of 50. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private. — Suze Orman

It costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs. — Allan Moyle

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. — George W. Bush

Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo. — Jacques Verges

If you're indexing to the S&P 500, you're buying the most expensive names in the market. — James O'Shaughnessy

I don't take anything for granted. There are 500 other girls right behind me. And I know that, because I was one of them. — Katy Perry

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays. — Mike Leigh

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones. — Marcus Allen

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. — Frank Zappa

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. — Sun Myung Moon

Forget the state concerns
we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape. — Michael Tanner

In any case, in Vermont $500 is a lot of money for dinner. I hope these rich folks enjoyed themselves. — Bernie Sanders

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure. — Bernie Sanders

Junior writers $300; Minor poets - $500 a week; Broken novelists - $850-1000; One play dramatists - $1500; Sucks - $2000. Wits - $2500. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Fortune 500 companies are still using incentive programs that were proven ineffective almost a generation ago. — Shawn Achor

I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father. — Sunil Mittal

I love movies like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Juno.' Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing. — Lucy Hale

I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles. — R.L. Stine

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company. — Guy Kawasaki

It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500. — Joey Logano

Merlyn has guns from 500 years in the future!!! — Cameron Kennedy

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. — Orson Welles

I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road. — Buddy Rice

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit. — John P. Kotter

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty. — Martin Luther King Jr.

We expect to make about 500,000-600,000 more. Our initial goal was one million, but in reality we will probably make a bit less. — Eric Friedman

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high. — Jim Sensenbrenner

I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing. — Steven Wright

it was the largest such action to ever take place in South Africa; over 1,500,000 million workers took part — Anonymous

I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver ... a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500. — Charlaine Harris

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence. — Noam Chomsky

The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions. — Marianne Williamson

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. — Catherine Fahringer

Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions. — Dean Wareham

on average about 7,500 searches are performed every single second of every day.1 — Eric Enge