I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop -… — Bernard DeVoto 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
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
“...your twenties are the years when a man wends and wanders, searching for who knows what - we say money or love… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I… — Luke Grimes Copy Share Image
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.' — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses.… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I… — Mariella Frostrup 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
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
We use up words like 'spiritual' so fast in this culture. Twenty years ago spiritual had a distinct meaning. But now there's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Throughout your teens and twenties, it's pretty easy to live in a suspended reality - one where you never get old or… — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
When you look back you talk about legends of the game, he's certainly up there. Twenty trophies since 1994. He just seems… — Dwight Yorke Copy Share Image
When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are.… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of… — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to be a superstar, like Julia Roberts or Madonna, and be on the cover of 'US' magazine when I'm… — Kellie Martin 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
When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care… — E. J. Holub Copy Share Image
For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd… — Ali Liebegott 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
Cursing herself, she said, "I'm going to man up here. I'm going to so be twenty-one. You're not going to believe how… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When I look back, if I'd played something differently, it might not have gone the way it did. So I don't feel… — Clive Owen 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've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud...… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not… — FM-2030 Copy Share Image
There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image