That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose… — Ben Sherwood Copy Share Image
Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Suppose it was demonstrated that one out of twenty alcoholics could learn to become a moderate social drinker. The experienced clinician would… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the… — Warren Spahn Copy Share Image
My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses,… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross;… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My entire twenties were filled with decisions that make me think, 'You had to go there, huh?' But that's part of exploration… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life,… — Margaret Meagher Copy Share Image
Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show.… — Jonathan M. Goldstein Copy Share Image
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Not only are we going to shift in our own lives - away from always trying to identify ourselves on the basis… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker’s dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren’t in our… — Ilona Andrews 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
Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds… — Eric Chaisson 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
God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
As you know, John McCain is an older, white-haired man who has been in the Senate for over twenty years, voted for… — Jay Leno 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 my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts… — Evelyn Lau Copy Share Image
It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image