Twenty Four Quotes

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. — Will Durant

I truly loathed cell phones. I hated the way they made me feel reachable twenty-four hours a day; — Penny Reid

Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record. — Barry Lyga

Each morning when we wake up to life we see that we have a gift of twenty-four brand new hours. If — Thich Nhat Hanh

only twenty-four hours in a day. I think — Roland Lazenby

He hasn't left his house in three years, he's not crazy, he's a genius; just tv and videogames twenty four-seven, I think he's my new hero ... — John Corey Whaley

cards. Twenty-four — Damian Harper

It's a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four. — Jane Lynch

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam — Gayle Forman

She still weighed only forty kilos and stood one metre twenty-four centimetres tall. — Stieg Larsson

Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours. — Steven D. Levitt

You have made Commerce a god that weighs on humanity like a twenty-four-pound boil on a man's back (117-118) — Walter Mosley

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five. — Guy Pearce

I think part of making any decision in your twenties is realizing there is no twenty-four flavor table. It's a myth. — Meg Jay

Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes. — Woody Allen

Why is it that twenty-four hours in the company of your family is capable of reducing you to a teenager? — Maggie O'Farrell

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Why is it that we only see short-term benefits? No one wants to invest in the future if it's more than twenty-four hours away, — Evan Currie

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours. — Robert Higgs

She understood that even the worst days contained only twenty-four hours. One did what one had to do to get through them, and afterwards, one slept. — Barbara Hambly

I've had the blues for twenty-four years. — Gillian Flynn

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face. — David Nicholls

Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment. — Mary Kay Ash

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two. — Dashiell Hammett

Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country. — Roald Dahl

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. — John Philip Sousa

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four ... — Mindy Kaling

[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration. — Lawrence Martin

You can worship God twenty four hours a day but your destiny depends on the cards he lets you play — Stanley Victor Paskavich

A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest. — Gayle Forman

how young twenty-four is when you're not fourteen. — Jessica Knoll

I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe. — Deborah Harkness

Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me. — Duke Of Wellington

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather. — Mark Twain

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades — Julia Child

This is where Grey slept. In twenty-four hours, Thomas is going to erase his dreams. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. — Mark Twain

Not a day on your calendar should ever be empty. It's bad luck. Twenty-four hours of wasted opportunity. — John Corey Whaley

Maybe he knew how I fantasized about living a twenty-four-hour life. — Stephanie Danler

Twenty-four years ago today, I married ye, Sassenach," he said softly. "I hope ye willna have cause yet to regret it. — Diana Gabaldon

They say there are
Twenty-four hours in a day
But I'm only up for three of them
And two I consider overtime — Francesco Marciuliano

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day. — Milton Sapirstein

I guess I can put two and two together."
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two ... — Dashiell Hammett

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day? — Daniel Handler

Releasing sperm into the vagina of a twenty-four-year-old does not a father make, — Colleen Hoover

When you're twenty-four," Marla says, "you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner. — Chuck Palahniuk

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and ... and ... and ... — Madeleine L'Engle

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Who else would it be? You've been blond - what like twenty four hours and airheadedness has already caught up to you? — Elle Klass

it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. — Alan Bradley

The pastor makes twenty-four
references to hell
in the sermon at church and forgets
to talk
about love. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe. — Stephen Hawking

I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children. — Lucy Robinson

Harry Dresden - I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day. — Jim Butcher

Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others. — Sathya Sai Baba

And I must be nineteen by now, lord! Maybe even twenty?" "Eighteen?" I suggested. "I could have been married four years ago, lord!" We — Bernard Cornwell

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day. — Rita Hayworth

Boys," I mutter tolerantly across the years to Saleem-at-twenty-four, "will be boys. — Salman Rushdie

Condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette. — Peter Kreeft

Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed. — Camille Paglia

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world. — Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

The first twenty-four hours of a young man's life in London usually settled his eternity in heaven or hell. — George Williams

I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. — Gillian Flynn

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels. — Carmen Electra

that there is a certain twenty-four-hours-a-day relentlessness to caring for young children that makes it hard to think straight. — Joanna Faber

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library. — Charles Bukowski

I also think that filmmakers understand, we don't have to make twenty movies a year, we make four to six. — Thomas Tull

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at The Four Seasons in twenty minutes anyway," I lie, standing up. "I have to go too. — Bret Easton Ellis

Twenty-four year olds were my new favourite thing. I needed to tell Oprah to put them on her list. — Alice Clayton

I am nearly twenty-nine, so I pass you there; though I am but four feet, and not likely to grow any more, save sideways. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Give a Paris woman at bay four-and-twenty hours, and she will overthrow a ministry. — Honore De Balzac

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. — Ambrose Bierce

Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day. — Gil Scott-Heron

The Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving. — Wilford Woodruff

For people have four shadows; four politicians have twenty shadows or hundred or more! One person with many fake faces! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fear is knocking at your door twenty four seven in desperation to destroy your dreams. — Euginia Herlihy

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you. — Mark Cuban

This is the way I think I should always paint you- with a size twenty-four round brush in my hand as you coat the bristles — Ella Frank

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. — Markus Zusak

Forty minutes, times sixty seconds, that's twenty-four thousand seconds to go. — David Mitchell

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old. — Jean Rhys

Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within twenty-four hour period are ninety-eight percent more likely to meet again? — Jennifer E. Smith

We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last sixty years."4 — Neil Postman

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. — Zig Ziglar

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. — Sinclair Lewis

I've read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried. — Lisa Scottoline

Miss Barnes clearly didn't know what in the world to do. She was twenty-four years old, for heaven's sake. — Liane Moriarty

Chapter Twenty-Four Excerpt from President Compton's Speech Emergency Declaration My — Jay Allan

EVERY MORNING, I wake up feeling older by so much more than a mere twenty-four hours. I open my eyes and everything seems blurry, as if I am encased — Laurel Saville

I must be irresistible. You can't stay away from me for more than twenty-four hours. — Catherine Doyle

There is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year. — Philip Toshio Sudo

Young people who begin drinking before age fifteen are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin drinking at twenty-one. — Joe Bruzzese

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look. — Stieg Larsson

I doubt you've been idle these last twenty-four hours, so tell me what I need to know and who I might have to kill to protect her. — Vanessa Kelly