Twenties Quotes - Page 18

• You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

  Patrick Leahy

  Funny, Fifteen, Rooms

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said "billion" many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said "billions and billions." For one thing, it's too imprecise. How many billions are "billions and billions"? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? "Billions and billions" is pretty vague. When we reconfigured and updated the series, I checked-and sure enough, I never said it.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Numbers, People

  "Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium". Book by Carl Sagan, 1997.

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• They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Stars, Distance, Future

  "Gulliver's Travels". Book by Jonathan Swift. Part III: "A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan". Chapter 3, 1726.

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• Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.

  Burt Rutan

  Future, Simple, Should Have

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• Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Someone said to me not too long ago, "Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve", and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Thinking, Long Ago, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Stupid, Humorous

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• Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

  Merlin Olsen

  Depressing, Book, Player

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• The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

  James E. Burke

  Europe, Years, World

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• I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Years, Differences, Wish

  Charlotte Bronte, K. M. Weiland (2014). “Jane Eyre”, p.140, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

  Larry Niven

  Father, Son, Advice

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• I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.

  Rumi

  Rain, Dying, Majesty

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• Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot reach the Long Wall we are not true men. On my fingers I count the twenty thousand li we have already marched. On the summit of Liupan the west wind lazily ripples our red banner. Today we have the long rope in our hands. When will we tie up the gray dragon of the seven stars?

  Mao Zedong

  Stars, Wall, Men

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.69, Univ of California Press

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• Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

  Brad Gilbert

  Years, Guy, Lockers

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• Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Beauty, Humor

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

  Mike Myers

  Book, Thinking, Eight

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• Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

  Patrick Ness

  Men, Years, Becoming

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Book, Past, Reality

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Real, Inquiring, Students

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Years, Careers

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• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  Xavier Becerra

  Aggravation, Deterioration, Disease

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• The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

  Mary Blakely

  Years, Next, Newborn

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

  Bert Campaneris

  Years, Play, League

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• I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mistake, Made, Five

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• When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to.

  Mindy Kaling

  Book, Men, Names

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.179, Crown/Archetype

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• Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Faith, Commitment, Four

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