Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through… — George Eliot 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
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
...I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and… — Mary Pickford Copy Share Image
DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias…Avoid the elaborate,… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
My twenties were carefree in the worst ways. There's a nice balance now of work ethic and healthy lifestyle and carefree attitude,… — Norman Reedus 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
I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
It's gotten to the point where I think my friends would rather hang out with their own kids than hang out with… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the… — Abigail Scott Duniway Copy Share Image
In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is said if an organization listens to the complaint of a customer and the problem is fixed, the customer remains a… — Phil Pringle Copy Share Image
Colin [Farrell] I talked to several times on the phone, and I said, remember, we have only twenty-five days of doing the… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens,… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent,… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago.… — Burt Rutan 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
I wasn't altered by the things that come with success but as you go about it those things play a part. You… — Mic Geronimo Copy Share Image