Twentieths Quotes & Sayings

We have rules One-Ear." The man smiled faintly at Mrs. Francis. "Ladies are not to be hacked apart with swords. It reflects badly on pirates in general and on our outfit in particular. — Sean Cullen

You can clone human brains but not what is stored inside them — Matt Haig

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron

Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me. — Stephen Vincent Benet

I have never written except to fix and perpetuate the memory of these cuts, these scissions, these ruptures, these abrupt and bottomless falls. — Antonin Artaud

There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it. — Solange Nicole

I eat merely to put food out of my mind. — N. F. Simpson

Gustav," he said, "I'm proud of you. You can relax now. — Christopher Healy

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. — John Stuart Mill

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. — Jacques Lacan

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering. — J. Michael Straczynski

If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true.
Well ... I guess the people who work hard whose dreams don't come true don't get to write books about it, so we never really find out what happens to them. So ...
If you believe in yourself and work hard, you have a fighting shot at having your dreams come true. — Mindy Kaling

Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie."

"Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your real friend. John Robert can be your real little friend. — Michael McDowell

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them. — John Adams

This sludge oozes like a dying sea snake, though it tastes like it's already dead. Some evil force made up this concoction, intending to release it to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting world. But the creator made the mistake of tasting his creation and passed on. The world was saved for a moment. Still, like the black plague, this thing refused to fade out forever. I'm sad to report that our good friend Cliff behind the bar rediscovered it. Now it's spreading around the world as if carried by rats. — Ace Boggess

It is idle to hope for the enforcement of a law where nineteen-twentieths of the people do not believe in the justice of its provisions. — Edmund Morris

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam