Top 1200 Twenty-Five Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars

I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die. --Natalya Shonski

If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America.

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.

All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.

The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'

I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.

Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

I want to be a part of films that will be watched even after twenty years.

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.

I have makeup that I can do in 15 minutes, 10 minutes, or five minutes, depending on what I'm doing that day. On a day when I'm shooting, it's 15 minutes. Five minutes is when I'm running around that day, and it's no big deal.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's considerable rewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty years.

The side plank and plank jumping jacks are all really great; just be sure to hold that naval to the spine as hard as you can. As for reps, do as many as you can and try for more on your next workout. If you can only do five on Tuesday, make sure you do six or seven on Wednesday. The only rule? Never go back to five! Always continue pushing forward.

I'm one of five sisters. I'm the younger of twins, and we're the youngest of five girls, and we've always been very close. We were pretty much a gang. I take after my mother a lot in terms of personality and character. She was very positive; always looked on the bright side of things. She had a tough time of it with my dad but did her best.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme increase by 40 per cent. We looked at their 23,000 genes and the self-healing genes were up regulated and all the genes related to heart disease, cancer and inflammatory diseases, diabetes, they all went down within five days.

I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

It would be my goal for Palin to become Oprah and be the ultimate kingmaker for twenty-odd years.

The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie movie and the other five hundred will be Mr. Darcy. So we had to find cool, working class kids with no profile who could be John Travolta and James Dean and people like that.

Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years.

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam