Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Bill Wyman

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Leslie Mann

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Bill Gates

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Donna Air

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

Donald Miller

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

Dalai Lama

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

David Foster Wallace

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

Sylvia Plath

At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

James Larkin

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

David Kahn

As we age, not only do we lose fat in our faces but our bones actually change in contour, often making us look older than we feel.

Susie Gardner

It's even more exciting when you hear it after a great play, when it's more spontaneous... when it just happens because it's the right thing to do or it's the inspired thing to do. Somebody just feels it in their bones that they need to stand up and do that, and then everybody joins in. I think that's when it really hits home.

Arthur Conan

It was a very tall man, if, indeed, it might be called a man, for the gaunt bones were protruding through the corroding flesh, and the features were of a leaden hue. A winding-sheet was wrapped round the figure, and formed a hood over the head, from under the shadow of which two fiendish eyes, deep set in their grisly sockets, blazed and sparkled like red-hot coals.

John Milton

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; / Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old / When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.

Camilla Bowles

Osteoporosis is not an inevitable part of ageing; it is preventable. So it is vital that all of us, of all ages, start taking care of our bones now, before it is too late.

Miriam Nelson

Osteoporosis and thinning bones is a major but underappreciated public health problem,

Henry Williamson

The moose are gone, and their bones lie under the sand in the soft coal which was the forest by the estuary, thousands of years ago.

Ken Williams

I've made no bones about it, ... Priority No. 1 when this is all said and done is to try and get him signed.

William Shakespeare

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

C. S. Lewis

You die and you die and then you are beyond death.

Arthur Sullivan

With this car, it's a diesel and probably gives off emissions. I'm not sure if it would pass or not.

Betty Smith

It takes a lot of doing to die.

Jan Stuart

This is a big issue - ultra low sulfur diesel is really easy to contaminate.

William Cullen Bryant

They talk of short-lived pleasures: be it so; pain dies as quickly, and lets her weary the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

John Dryden

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage

Luis Diaz

This is the second time someone dies this year; it's extremely dangerous. People that pay smugglers can expect things like this to happen because the smugglers aren't looking out for people.

Nicola Formichetti

When I first moved to London for university, I was already a big fan of Diesel because, in the nineties, Diesel was, like, the brand. The stores were the place to go. It wasn't workwear like Levi's or G-Star.