Twenty Seven Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
— Samantha Bee
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In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the…
— Eric Temple Bell
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in,…
— Bette Midler
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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute…
— Ronald Reagan
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From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven,…
— Adolf Eichmann
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There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large part,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even…
— Steve Lopez
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Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year…
— Kevin Bales
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For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.
— Robert Motherwell
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Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand…
— Grete Waitz
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A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.
— Robert Fulghum
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Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number...
— Junot Diaz
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When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you…
— Sara Gruen
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I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once…
— Grace Paley
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Know what? (Wulf) If halflings live past twenty-seven. But then anything is possible. I say in a few months we should pop us some Orville…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?
— Janet Fitch
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A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his…
— Walter Moers
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On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his…
— Jay-Z
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