If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it. — John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara Copy Share Image
Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A very poor kid came up to me after a talk and said 'I want to go blow up a factory.' I… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
If it's a choice between spending twenty five dollars for tickets to a movie and almost that much again for drinks and… — Tim Lucas Copy Share Image
Let's forget about themes and mood boards. Let's start from a different point of view. You have to leave for two months… — Christophe Lemaire Copy Share Image
In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics.… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world.… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny… — Kurt Voss Copy Share Image
Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
From the beginning, what I was connecting with in the gym was a universal energy source. I would just feel it flowing.… — Shawn Phillips Copy Share Image
everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed all my times, teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and now I'm enjoying my fifties. — Shaun Ryder Copy Share Image