The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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A million flies can't be wrong - Eat shit.
Seen under it written in a different colour:
A billion humans can't be wrong - Don't eat shit
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There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
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A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
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If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes.
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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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If you can count your money you don't have a billion dollars.
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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
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