Quotes 181 till 200 of 240.
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The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
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The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
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There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.
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They're pretty extreme, but I loved the two 'Human Centipede' films from Tom Six. Those movies are fun because they're well-made. They're crazy and psychotic and perverted and twisted, but they're really well-made.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.
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To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense.
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: T -
Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.
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Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.
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Twas the fifteenth anniversary of her twenty-second year,
So he smiled at her as sweetly as a hog
And asked what present she would like. And jestingly she said:
Your green tie for my little yellow dog.Source: The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog line 13 -
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?.
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Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.
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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
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Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
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