Twenty Quotes - page 3

Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the black bird. (Wallace Stevens)
There's a point, around age twenty,” Bedap said, "when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated. View quote
Anthony James Leggett
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification. View quote
Emil Cioran
So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long. View quote
Billy Joel
If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years. View quote
Steve Jobs
I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty miles away.' ‘ Life is a mystery,' said Powdermill, with a gold-toothed grin. 'It is that, right enough,' agreed Huntsekker. View quote
David Gemmell
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation. (Anthony de Mello)
It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain. View quote
Willa Cather
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand. View quote
Joan Robinson
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! View quote
Kevin Spacey
We are a nation of twenty million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless. View quote
Dean Koontz
It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
The twentieth century was like twenty years' worth of change at today's rate of change. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick! View quote
Abbie Hoffman
If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better. View quote
Abby Sunderland
People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes. (Saki)
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue. View quote
Jack Vance
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment. View quote
George Orwell
In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide, immediately, you have to go "Ohmigod. Do I look at the most beautiful woman in the world or the craziest guy in the world?" View quote
David Cross