If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Every decision you make is an important one, whether there are twenty thousand people working for you or just one. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen. — Bert Campaneris Copy Share Image
If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The funny thing about being in your early twenties is that it's a lot like being any other age, except you don't… — Stephanie Reents Copy Share Image
To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz… — Randy Sandke Copy Share Image
When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory;… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect… — Frank James Copy Share Image
condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but… — John Guare Copy Share Image
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
what's the matter?" he asked "nothing" "what do you want me to do for you?" "i want you to be old. ten… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans,… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image