“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”

“I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”

“I have trespassed upon your time too long. I will take my departure with a thousand thanks for your amibility.Not at all. I wish you would have had a bannana.You are most amiable”

“... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not known that that exclamation had been made a thousand times before in all Russian novels of high life. It was that alone that stopped me.”

“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.”

“The student asks: If my redstone necklace had every view of every veil that ever brightened, would I be wise? The master answers: If I had a thousand pieces of a priceless vase, would I be rich?”