Sixteenth Quotes

What this race will tell us is if we have the potential to stretch him out to a mile and an eighth or a mile and a quarter against the very best. I would be surprised if he didn't run well at a mile and a sixteenth. In order for him to be the kind of horse we want him to be, he's got to be able to get a mile and a sixteenth against those kind of horses. - Todd Pletcher

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century England, actors were. - Albert Gore

This was a big win, but it's just one-sixteenth of our final goal. We'll only be satisfied when we get enough of those one-sixteenths to win the conference championship. - Joe Curl

Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end. - Bible

Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, / The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, / The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, / The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, / The ninth to Jeshuah, the tenth to Shecaniah, / The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, / The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, / The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, / The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses, / The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel, / The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul, / The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah. - Bible

Let a fool month after month eat his food (like an ascetic) with the tip of a blade of grass, yet he is not worth the sixteenth particle of those who have well weighed the law. - Friedrich Max Muller

Last time out going seven-eighths, she didn't get away real well. She actually finished well, we just couldn't get any position early on. I think this is more her game, though, a mile and a sixteenth to a mile and an eighth. - Todd Pletcher

ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth century; so called because they were light weights --
_cunctationes illuminati_. - Ambrose Bierce

If you look at surveys about buying priorities right now, fuel economy ranks sixteenth. For Honda buyers, its fourteenth. Only 2 percent of Honda buyers even think of fuel economy at all. It's not even on the radar. A fuel hike might get it on radar, but it probably won't make it item one, two, three of four. They see the larger vehicles meeting other needs and even with $2.50 a gallon gas, they're not going to necessarily give it up. - Andy Boyd