#twenty

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. ↗

— George Canning

#asking #bottoms #cent #clap #commerce

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#afresh #begun #done #first #give

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

#blame #contract #few #go #i

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers. ↗

— Diane Wood

#constitution #debate #dynamism #end #evolution

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it. ↗

— William Wyler

#else #get #great #nothing #percent

Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth. It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#nature

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. ↗

— William Adams

#between #cape #could #days #feet

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#fifty #his #life #man #same

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. ↗

— Woody Allen

#i #involves #minutes #peace #read

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#done #repair #sometimes #take #ten