million quotes

A turn-up in a million.

- Ernest Bevin
On himself. Quoted in his entry byBaron Francis-Williams in the Dictionary of National Biography (1951^60).

She looked like a million dollars, I must admit, even if in well-used notes.

- Angela Olive Carter
Wise Children, ch.5.

'Yes,I have a pairof eyes,'replied Sam,'and that's just it.If they wos a pair o'patent double million magnifyin'gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o'stairs and a deal door; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision's limited.'

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Pickwick Papers, ch.34.

The definition of an individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

- Arthur Koestler
  Darkness at Noon,'The Grammatical Fiction', pt.2.

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

-Thornton Niven Wilder
  The Matchmaker, act1.