Best hundred & eighty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time”

“At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.”

Littles Made Real Three Animal Alive Progress Mystery Ten Bird Hundred Structure Plant Fishes Smallest Seventies Insects Ninety Eighty Dots Marvellous

Author:Hokusai

“Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the forms or answer the phones?”

Thinking Two Humor Form Political Answers Five Hundred Program Phones Spending Eighty Files Bureaucrats Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."”

Ifs Inspirational Children Littles Helping Hands Waiting Poor Sky Changed Creatures Hundred Constant Ridiculous Fairy Ninety Eighty

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

“Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.”

Giving Has Beens Two Book Hands Causes Sky Subjects Thousand Bird Hundred Treated Feathers Eighty Illustration Astonishment

Book:An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain

Source: An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain

“It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.”

Men Common Cases Percent Hundred Odd Multiple Tattoo Eighty Homicide Tattooed

Author:Truman Capote

“If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.”

Ifs Two Crime Particular Percent Hundred Eight Violent Genes Probability Eighty Carrier Violent Crimes

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.”

Knows Soul Millions Land Thousand Hundred India Embrace South Population Spread Miles Squares Eighty Fourteen Triangles Apex

Book:Around the World in Eighty Days

Source: Around the World in Eighty Days

“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”

Years Known Study Limits Hundred Weight Average Tiny Grandmother Eighty Ants Peasants Lifting

Author:Terry Pratchett

“This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide. . . . Cuthbert was an optimist at heart, and it seemed to him that, at the rate at which the inhabitants of that interesting country were murdering one another, the supply of Russian novelists must eventually give out.”

Giving Heart Country Three Interesting Study Happened Pages Hundred Decided Suicide Misery Rate Commit Novelists Hopeless Gray Optimist Eighty

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.”

Wells Long Hours Gone Week Minutes Thousand Ten Six Long Time Hundred Seven Eight Seconds Sixty Eighty Seven Days

Book:Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra

Source: Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra

“On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.”

Ifs Men Needs Feels Lasts Wife Minutes Mines Hundred Stronger Catholic Medicine Priests Swings Sixty Eighty Own Business Deathbed Last Minute Methodists

Book:True Grit

Source: True Grit

“But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.”

Knows Way Sometimes Sleep Five Minutes Bears Eating Hundred Lays Very Good Pot Honey Sheep Eighty Insomnia Counting Good Way Licking

Author:A. A. Milne

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

Men Two Age School Three Literature Painting Hundred Dresses Aging Architecture Eighty

Author:Lord Byron

“Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures.”

Ifs Thinking Two Sometimes Use Would Be Lying Night Figures Thousand Ten Hundred Add Rounds Dumb Awake Each Day Ninety Eighty Awake At Night Dumb Things Night Thinking

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn't imagine why. "Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out." "The interest alone is going to kill you." "What do you charge?" "Three hundred eighty-seven percent." "Is that ethical?" "It's as ethical as my dating the son of Satan.”

Stills Three Interest Pay Millions Imagine Son Prove Percent Hundred Dating Yeah Bills Dollars Prison Seven Innocence Satan Ethical Eighty Million Dollars

Book:Fifth Grave Past the Light: Number 5 in series

Source: Fifth Grave Past the Light: Number 5 in series

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