Top 1200 Twenty-Four Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

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

Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart.

Whenever you play against Fred - we certainly did it - you let him get it because he has to take three or four touches. He doesn't know how to do one or two touches. Anyone that watches his game, he gets it facing the wrong way, turns, turns, chops, chops and he'll give you the ball three or four times a game.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

Every decision you make is an important one, whether there are twenty thousand people working for you or just one.

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

For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

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

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.

Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.

I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.

Four years that the [Barack] Obama Justice Department... There were 100 ostensible cases, allegations. No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, allegations of torture, all this garbage that left was putting out, and the Obama Justice Department took four years considering those cases.

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep—I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

I am reminded of a piece of advice my father gave me regarding shoes. ...He said it is better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. One pair made of fine leather could outlast four inferior pairs and, if well-cared-for, would continue to proclaim your good judgment and taste no matter how old they become.

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

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

Socialism and Communism don't work, but neither does straightforward capitalism. We've got to get a new way of thinking and working. We blew it so there was good and bad about the celtic tiger. But we're tiny. There's four million in the country, do you know what I mean? We're tiny. Four million in a country, how many is in New York? Seven? Ten? But we're strong, so hopefully we pull through.

The trial of Enron chiefs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay began four-and-a-half years after perpetrating -- allegedly -- the fraud that led to the second largest bankruptcy in American history. Why four-and-a-half years? Because apparently it's harder to bring Ken Lay to trial than it is to invade two countries.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

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

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

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

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

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

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

The reality is it's still in our hands. We have to play four real good games against the Angels. If we take three of four we're still two back and then we'd need help. We'd still be breathing, but we'd need help. We'll shoot all our bullets to try and win that game (Monday) and worry about the next day when we get there.

I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

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

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

For most people, they only thing they know about bobsled is 'Cool Runnings.' Well, 'Cool Runnings' was, of course, four men in a bobsled, and four-man is considered the highlight of our sport. It's what everybody knows. It's what everybody watches. And it's the big dog of our sport.

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

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

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

The influence of the Gang of Four should not be underrated, but it should be noted that 97 or 98 per cent of the population hate them intensely for their crimes. This was shown by the mass movement against the Gang of Four which erupted at Tiananmen Square on April 5, 1976, when the Gang were still riding high, Chairman Mao was critically ill and Premier Zhou had passed away.

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

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

In an early version of the story, I thought Aang could shepherd a herd of twenty bison.