Top 1200 Twenty-Four Quotes & Sayings

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.

People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.

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

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

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

I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days. My skepticism is due, in part, to the fact that the Bible says that the sun wasn’t created until the fourth day of creation (Genesis 1:16-19). I have a hard time figuring how twenty-four hour days could have been measured before that.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four.

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

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

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

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience.

I heard about twenty, twenty-four bars of one track - one track - on '13,' and I listened to it, and I just didn't like it at all; I just didn't like it. And I have that right not to like it.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.

A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

I've got over three-hundred pairs of shoes back home - I'm twenty-four years old and I wear a size four, so all my shoes are just cheap.

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.

You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing.

The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it to the next telephone pole in the distance. Whether you're running twenty or one hundred and twenty miles at a time, the distance has to be tackled mentally and physically one mile at a time. The ability to compartmentalize pain into these small bite sizes is key.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment.

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

People are carrying around smartphones. They have a video capture device in their pockets twenty-four/seven.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

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

It takes a village to raise a child; that's how I basically balance it. It's twenty four hours in a day.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

Twenty-four hours a day football was a topic at home. I've always loved to play the game.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.

Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is an eight-hour form of storytelling, and film is a two-hour form. Each and every one of them are important to me, because they're a different modality of storytelling.

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.

You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve.