#twenty

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty. ↗

— Moliere

#soul #terrifies #twenty

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#concentrated #day #hard #hard work #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

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

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#almost #daily #devote #effect #exertion

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

— Chinua Achebe

#done #repair #sometimes #take #ten

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#day #fruit #invisible #maybe #remains

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years. ↗

— Thayer David

#been #birthday #i #now #recent

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#american #american men #fun #golf #having

Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#actually #compilation #fragmented #full #just