It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, ‘People should listen to you talk.’
Kids don’t want to hear the same record. There are a hundred million bands that they could listen to; you want to give them something that they’ve never heard before.
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the scene, there are hundred entrepreneurs who never did.
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don’t know much more about soul than he did.
Acting is a funny job because you’re always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you’re working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on.
It’s estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
Even if people say you look cool and you did well, it’s extremely cringey to watch yourself rocking out. It’s like listening to your own voice on an answering machine times a hundred, because you’re hearing your voice through a microphone outside of a PA at a hundred decibels.
I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.
We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God’s account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.
It’s a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That’s one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.
Unilever has been around for 100-plus years. We want to be around for several hundred more years.
I don’t care more about ’13’ because it’s in the Olivier than I did about ‘Cock’ in a 100-seat studio. They both matter because it’s still a person sat there watching your play. And the play has to be good enough – because there are a hundred other writers out there who deserve to have their play on instead.
When I watch Twenty20 cricket, there’s a different satisfaction. That hundred you get in six hours is a very satisfying feeling. A real triumph of skill. I don’t quite see that in the 20-over game – or the 100-ball game.
I have always given hundred percent on the field.
‘In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
It’s fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there’s a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.
At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot – it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather’s land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.
I live in New Hampshire. We’re in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I’ve got beachfront property. You tell us up there, ‘By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,’ and we say, ‘Your point is?’
For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it’s still even around.
I have been an Avengers fan since the middle 1960s. I grew up with them, and I’ve imagined a hundred different versions of an Avengers movie. I think I even have a script I wrote back in eighth grade, ‘Avengers vs. the Mole Man.’ Truly dreadful, but a work of love.
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.
There were a hundred people in my graduating class. I wouldn’t have changed it for the world.
There’s probably a hundred more submission holds in the WWE because of me training to bring in those submissions so people could look at them a legitimize them for pro wrestling. You look at it before I was there and after I was there: it’s different matches.
Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.
Generally, Italians just eat better. They’re not doing that thing where they’re eating two or three hundred grams of pasta. They’re never eating a carbonara sauce with a tub of cream in it.
I’ve got a hundred thousand things on my mind that are taking precedence over trying to make pop collaborations.
I personally have said many times I’d be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though obviously it’s not appropriate for everyone. Most investors need a more diversified portfolio.
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.
I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
When I started giving talks about women’s history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, ‘Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.’ It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Well, you’re going to be dead in a hundred years anyway, so live dangerously.
Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.
I don’t really get into a writing routine until March or April, when I’ll write a few hundred words a day, often in a cafe in the morning after the school run.
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.
Given the way Duke plays its offense and defense, in high school I was very interested in playing for Coach K. Then when you get there and see how good he is, you buy into it a hundred percent. He has a recipe for how to be successful on the court.
Movies are weird; it’s like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It’s a weird world, but every job is weird; it’s always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ is a film that anyone wanting to become an actor should watch at least six hundred times.
We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred ‘Marco Polos,’ came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.
As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.
