Twenties Quotes - Page 28

• 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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Children, Sight, People

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.322, Delphi Classics

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• Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Four, Hours

  Robert Higgs (2007). “Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government”, Independent Inst

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

  Mary Wesley

  Running, Years, Car

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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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• One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Illumination, Media

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• Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Lasts, Nightmare

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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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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• 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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• 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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• Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Medicine, Firsts, Selflessness

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

  Cole Younger

  Selflessness, Eleven, Wounded

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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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• 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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• Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.

  Terry Brooks

  Home, Writing, Thinking

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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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• 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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• All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two young men rushing about in mysterious formations, and whatever he brought in his flask.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Sight, Air

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• It is most heartening to learn that young men and women, in their late teens and twenties, are increasingly attracted to meditative prayer in the Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. May all the faithful find in the Eucharist their source of strength and courage to imitate our Lady, totally open to his will in their daily lives. It is my hope that this devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist will spread to more and more parishes and dioceses across our nation.

  John Joseph O'Connor

  Jesus, Prayer, Blessed

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• For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

  Jacques Attali

  Looks, World, Noise

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.3, Manchester University Press

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Missing, Criticism

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