Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or million:
“Is she worth keeping? Why, she is a pearl
Whose price hath launched above a thousand ships.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I have at last, after several months’ experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert—a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)