Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But… — Arthur L. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
For my teen years and all of my twenties it felt like I was trying to live up to this expectation of… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Obviously, when you're in your early twenties, you don't think about your decisions and their long term effects. — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option,… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become… — Steve Daines Copy Share Image
People discuss their relationships all the time, but you can't. I don't think people realize how harmful that is, how it twists… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“In a decade that would become known as the Roaring Twenties, a “Jazz Age” glamorized in the works of authors like F.… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company… — Mary Rowlandson Copy Share Image
You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you'd realized… — Spencer Matthews Copy Share Image
Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently,… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
Holly: Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn’t there some law that says we get twenty-four? Artemis: I don't… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at… — David Markson Copy Share Image
I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image