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Quotes About Millions

He glanced at his e-mail, saw the box was full of unread messages, missives, requests, and adds for cheap, Internet Viagra. Apparently, Abba Contiga Brezhnev, Contessa of some country he'd never heard of, had a few million bucks she needed laundered, and had gone straight past hello and howdy-do and on to calling him her dear.
~ David Niall Wilson
Two: Those millions of unknown creatures include viruses, bacteria, fungi, protists, and other organisms, many of which are parasitic.
~ David Quammen
In the end, I think the local legends and traditions tell the true story. Written history reflects the beliefs or opinions or agenda of the writer. Local legends and tradition are more universal, less malleable—as you said, they tell us the beliefs of millions. They are often the most accurate versions of history.
~ David S. Brody
The quantum death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 24 hours before he was "officially" declared dead it was announced on the internet that he had already died. Many people were shocked to hear of his "official" death, especially those who had believed he was already dead. Philip Seymour Hoffman was both dead and alive in the minds of millions simultaneously. A rare death for a rare actor.
~ Dean Cavanagh
De cette époque, aux alentours de 2,6 millions d'années, datent aussi les plus vieux outils connus, trouvés à Hadar et dans la vallée de l'Omo en Éthiopie, mais aussi au Kenya à l'ouest du lac Turkana.
~ Jean-Jacques Hublin
As a human being, he might not have been lovable—or even likable—but as a performer, he possessed unsurpassed talents that he honed through a lifetime of practice. On Sunday afternoons, he shared his gifts with millions, enabling them to forget reality and vicariously experience thrills that were more exhilarating than anything felt in a church pew.
~ Jeff Benedict
What is it that happens in an inflation? The unit of money suddenly loses its identity. The crowd it is part of starts growing and, the larger it becomes, the smaller becomes the worth of each unit. The millions one always wanted are suddenly there in one's hand, but they are no longer millions in fact, but only in name.
~ Elias Canetti
Yes, we even doubted his resolve to exterminate us. Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means? In the middle of the twentieth century!
~ Elie Wiesel
He was never alone. A companionship of millions went with him, and he felt the Desert close, as stars are close to one another, or grains of sand.
~ Algernon Blackwood
About eighteen million prescriptions were written for Fen-Phen that year, and doctors around the country estimated that almost seven million people were taking the drugs.
~ Alicia Mundy
If you want to maintain the unique character of our sport in Europe, which is of great importance to millions of people, you need to be able to put associations in a position to protect the weaker clubs.
~ Frans Timmermans
I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
~ Felix Dennis
It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.
~ Charles B. Rangel
We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab countries. What has already been exposed about the weapons Israel is holding can destroy the region and kill millions.
~ Mordechai Vanunu
We're in the '100 percent return' business. This is driving millions of new customers into brands; most of our customers are wearing brands they've never tried before.
~ Jennifer Hyman
The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.
~ Bill Keller
When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.
~ John Battelle
At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.
~ Daphne Koller
After almost half a billion dollars spent on the computer registration system for Obamacare, the website coughed, sputtered, and appeared to descend into an immediate coma as millions tried to log on. One reason is that the Obama administration never fully tested it.
~ Jonathan Turley
I mean it's easy to have a website. It's inexpensive to do so, and most of the small businesses have that, but to get access to hundreds of millions of customers is hard.
~ Andy Jassy
The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.
~ Joe Baca
I plan with the BBC African Player of the Year award to become an agent of hope and positive change in the lives of the millions of African youths who have lost hope and are deprived.
~ Emmanuel Adebayor
With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
~ Gary Weiss