Top 1200 Twenty-Four Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty?one that everything afterward savors of anti?climax.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have - they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.

If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.

At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a few years ago were just getting hot. The band jazzed at full blast. The air was so thick you could pick it up in handfulls and through it around like snowballs. The dance-floors were crowded with couples who couldn't do anything but wiggle hips and feet.

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth of tunes, and they were really pretty -but totally meaningless. So in the end I came up with material I liked. We worked on The Lion King for four years, but I wasn't toying until the last three-and-a-half weeks properly. On Crimson Tide, on the other hand, I just went in and within seconds I knew what I wanted.

I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts, Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.

Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life

There was this one time in Vegas when I took four Victoria's Secret models and did one gram off each of their bodies within, like, 45 minutes. I declared myself King of Vegas and decided to remodel my hotel room with my bare hands to resemble King Louis XIV's bedroom at Versailles. Knocked down two entire walls, and later had four knuckle surgeries. Still wasn't as high as Rob Ford.

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer? A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams. And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.

Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.

It's not about me - four simple words that described the life of Christ. Do you call yourself a Christian? Well then, you're not off the hook. You don't get to claim 'Me, myself, and I' as your four words. 'It's not about me' should describe your life as well.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Going on twenty years, I've seen A-Rod getting better in different programs. He's one of the hardest-working guys there.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

It was fine when I was single and childless. Carrying the responsibility of screwing up your kids at the same time is huge. I remember when I got Peter Pan, and I told my mom and dad and my friends I was leaving - again, I was cast way late on - in the next two days to go to Australia for four months, and they all went "Bye! See you in four months!" But no one said "We need you," and I really knew that it was time to think about someone else for a change.

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

I still love 'All Right Now,' strangely enough. But then that's probably because I didn't play it for some twenty years.

Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all. Why are there four oaks at Fourtrees, if not to stand for the four Clans?" Firestar gazed up at the massive oak trees, then back at Bluestar. Fury pure as a lighting flash rushed through his body. "Are you mouse-brained?" he snarled. "Are you telling me SkyClan had to leave because there weren't enough trees?

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

Like most men, I am consumed with desire whenever a lesbian gets within twenty feet.

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.

I like traveling and I like not being part of the film world. Especially when you're in the middle of a junket, you're thinking, "I'm not doing this again for four years!"That's about taking time and finding the right story and being in a happy place in life where you can joyfully tell a story. I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.

Capitalism can be alright, I mean Karl Marx didn't live to see what Roosevelt did with that Depression. He pulled everybody out of that Depression and everybody hated Franklin Roosevelt. He got into office four times. One after the other, with everybody saying, he can't get in again. Everybody voted for Roosevelt four times and he did a hell of a lot.

It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.

The qualifying system helps the top guys like Sergio Garcia, who play most of their golf in the U.S. They can rely on the world rankings and just play their four extra events [with the four majors and three World Golf Championship events counting as seven European events]. But for the other guys it's tough, and I don't know if that can be changed. It is a tricky situation.

Sometimes HR transformations have been definitions. Just because someone does an e-HR system or puts in a new talent system or changes the HR function does not mean an HR transformation has occurred. We identified four phases of HR transformation. Missing any of the four phases would be an incomplete effort.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss.

Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

Twenty-first century policing reform will require increased investment in law enforcement, not defunding it.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.

I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.