Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
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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
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