Top 1200 Twenty-Four Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.

Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before.

People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.

Here are the facts: my folks grew up so poor that, in the words of Redd Foxx, there were twenty o's between the p and r.

I take inspiration from my life but only twenty per cent is real the rest is all made up.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.

The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you to heavy calisthenics and then they beat the tar out of you... after you got tired. If you came back the next day they'd do the same thing. After about four days of you surviving this punishment, then maybe they might show you how to wrestle. That was to teach respect.

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce. The testimony of two women is equal to that of one man. Any woman who wishes to travel needs the written permission of her husband. And the number of unemployed women is four times that of men.

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into my mind. I'll record three or four lines at a time, get a good take, and do three or four more. It may be whatever comes into my mind. But I care about my craft a lot more than a lot of other people.

I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.

There are only four things in all cleaners - whether it's shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn't matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label - it still has these damn four things in it. Anything else is just unnecessary additions to make it smell good or color it blue when it goes down the toilet.

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.

You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.

I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors.

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

I have done more live events in the past twenty years than I have eaten dinner.

There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech.... A million voters with IQs below 60 have their ears glued to the radio. It takes four days' hard work to concoct a speech without a sensible word in it. Next a dam must be opened somewhere. Four dry Senators get drunk and make a painful scene. The Presidential automobile runs over a dog. It rains.

I remember being captivated by Jules Verne's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' when I read it as a kid.

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

[When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

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

We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.