The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What's weird is when you meet a girl who is 23 and you are talking to her, even her voice is high-pitched,… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
There ain't no way I'm going to be droppin' nothing. If I was in my twenties, maybe. But now I try to… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You know, I don’t get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each,” said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
After that really, I spent the majority of the spring going to tons and tons of regional festivals throughout America. Every corner… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
I didn't know the Bible said anything about money. Twenty percent of what Christ talked about was money. You think about it… — Mike Murdock Copy Share Image
Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for… — Charles E. Bohlen Copy Share Image
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie.… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life… — Lady Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image