Million Short Tons

Famous quotes containing the words million, short and/or tons:

    “Mister Ward, don’t yur blud bile at the thawt that three million and a half of your culled brethren air a clanking their chains in the South?—Sez I, not a bile! Let ‘em clank!”
    —Artemus Ward (1834–1867)

    “How, in one short century, has this ersatz sport so strangled the consciousness of the country in the grip of its flabby tentacles that the mention of women’s baseball gets no reaction other than blank amazement?”
    —Darlene Mehrer, As quoted in Women in Baseball. Ch. 6, by Gai Ingham Berlage (1994)

    “People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.”
    —Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)