A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I don't exactly know the moment that I was a millionaire but it was in my twenties. — Deborah Meaden Copy Share Image
Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full… — David Burnett Copy Share Image
Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before. — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what?… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well,… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone...… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
If this Constitution does not have the support of the people of Europe and on reflection is not deemed to signpost a… — Gisela Stuart Copy Share Image
It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
A lot of times when they catch a guy who killed twenty-seven people, they say, He was a loner. Well, of course… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast. — David Luiz Copy Share Image
I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties. You're not burnt out, you're going to… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.” — Brigid Lowry Copy Share Image
What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
