On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of… — Ithiel de Sola Pool Copy Share Image
We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment,… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How… — Greg Nickels Copy Share Image
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Tis now the twenty-third of march, And this warm sun takes out the starch Of winter's pinafore - Methinks The Very pasture… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: "You have to fight fire with fire" so that I… — Howard Gossage Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years. — Melinda McGraw Copy Share Image
I bought a Christmas tree for twenty dollars. When I came home the next day, my wife was wearing it in her… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him,… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“My twenties revolved around dreaming, but once I reached my thirties I realized quickly reality sucks and dreams don’t come true.” — C.V. Hunt Copy Share Image
I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up… — Larry David Copy Share Image
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four… — Samuel Copy Share Image
“Also, because it’s harder to be magnanimous when you’re in your twenties, I think, and so that’s why I’d like to remind… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image